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Go the F**k to Sleep
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Free Shipping Worldwide  Ships within 24 hours from UK supplier| Rating: | | | Format: | Hardback | | Published In: | UK, 16 June 2011 | Go the F**k to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach's verses perfectly capture the familiar-and unspoken-tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. In the process, they open up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations, and laugh at their absurdity.
With illustrations by Ricardo Cortés, Go the F**k to Sleep is beautiful, subversive and pants-wettingly funny-a book for parents new, old and expectant. You probably should not read it to your children.
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The cats nestle close to their kittens,
The lambs have laid down with the sheep.
You're cozy and warm in your bed, my dear.
Please go the f**k to sleep.
The windows are dark in the town, child.
The whales huddle down in the deep.
I'll read you one very last book if you swear
You'll go the f**k to sleep.
The eagles who soar through the sky are at rest
And the creatures who crawl, run, and creep.
I know you're not thirsty. That's bullshit. Stop lying.
Lie the f**k down, my darling, and sleep. About the AuthorAdam Mansbach's novels include The End of the Jews, winner of the California Book Award, and the bestselling Angry Black White Boy, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005. His fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Believer, Grants, The Los Angeles times, and many other publications. He is the 2010-11 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University. Ricardo Cortes has illustrated books about marijuana, electricity, the Jamaican bobsled team, and Chinese food. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine, The Village Voice, and on CNN and FOX News. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he is working on a book about the history of Coca-Cola and cocaine. You can see his work at Rmcortes.com Reviews'Total genius.' - Jonathan Lethem, father of two, author of Motherless Brooklyn. 'A children's book for grown-ups! I really did laugh out loud - hilarious!' - David Byrne, father of one, musician, artist. 'This is the most honest children's book ever written. And it's f*cking hilarious.' - A.J. Jacobs, father of three, author of The Year of Living Biblically. 'I wish this book had been around during my daughter's overly protracted sleep rituals! Finally someone tells it like it really is. This is no-guilt funny and a godsend!' - Cristina Garcia, mother of one, author of The Lady Matador's Hotel. 'Go the Fuck to Sleep is the secret anthem of tired parents everywhere, Adam Mansbach's homage to the tropes of bedtime stories is pitch perfect, and Ricardo Cortes's stunning illustrations will keep grown-ups and kids alike returning to these pages again and again!' - Bliss Boyard, author of One Drop: My Fathers Hidden Life. |
| Publisher: | Canongate Books Ltd | | ISBN: | 0857862650 |
| EAN: | 9780857862655 | | Dimensions: | 25.0 x 19.0 centimeters (0.24 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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 – Customer review on 28/09/2011
OMG! How this book resonates with me. I think I'll be writing the sequel, 'Where the F$%^k is the remote?'
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 – Customer review on 24/09/2011
My goodness, u can't e en read a book review without some people/parents getting on their high horse. I find this book hilarious, it speaks th words. Sometimes feel, lol. Great resent for new parents to be or with a toddler. just do t let the kids get a hold of it :)
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– Customer review on 13/09/2011
As a parent of 2 kids on the Spectrum, one with Autism and the other an Aspie, this book should be given as a parent manual of what to expect. We have had sooooo many problems with sleeping at night that this book just make me laugh so hard. To those critics out there, in our world we dont have time or energy for PC thinking. Live in our shoes and you would wake up to this not being bad parenting skills. Well done to this book being printed :-)
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 – Customer review on 04/11/2011
Having worked in childcare for 10 years, I can so relate to this book. Some days at work, a few of the cherubs would like to test me. The book is harmless and funny. Only people with a sense of humour need to buy this book, otherwise you'll be wasting your money. We need more books like this to come out :)
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– Customer review on 26/10/2011
I have bought a couple of these for friends who have given birth to sweet little cherubs - only to find in the middle of the night that they have grown horns, have pointed teeth, and the ravens are swirling overhead - yes you've got it - they won't sleep. This book is for the parents - not the wee bairns - and is a funny, quirky book of adult poems about trying to get the fruit of your loins to 'Go the F*k to Sleep!'
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 – Customer review on 21/10/2011
Go the F**k to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach's verses perfectly capture the familiar-and unspoken-tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. In the process, they open up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations, and laugh at their absurdity.If anyone seriously thinks this book is actually for children, they are sorely mistaken.
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– Customer review on 12/10/2011
I bought 2 copies of this book. 1 for me, as it is 'Shelf Worthy' and 1 for a friend.... who having is having a baby. This book has been taken out to dinner party's and all the adults have a good laugh. Very enjoyable, worth the buy.
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– Customer review on 28/09/2011
EXCELLENT!!!! Great for parent, children, grandparent, aunts, uncles or anyone that can just get a little bit fed up with the going to be rituals that those wonderful endearing lights of our lives put us through nightly!!!
Great book, one to be handed down generations to come!!!
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– Customer review on 24/09/2011
As a Primary School teacher this is a must have for all teachers. After a hard day dealing with the little darlings issues this book trully makes me smile. Parents all over the world will adore this beautifully written adults bedtime story!!!
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– Customer review on 12/09/2011
This is a very funny book but definitely not for children!
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