The book is the creation of author adam mansbach, who came up with the idea for the book as a joke, after spending over two hours one night trying. Buy go the fk to sleep main by mansbach, adam, cortes, ricardo isbn. Text publishing go the fk to sleep, book by adam mansbach and. The narrator wants you to, well, go the fuck to sleep. The book contains many instances of the f word as well as some other swears. Its a problem everybody is likely to face eventually, nobody particularly likes dealing with it while its going on, everybody. Go the fk to sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and. Last week, the times ran a piece about a kids book for adults called go the fuck to sleep, by adam mansbach, which explored a curious phenomenon. Go the f to sleep came about when mansbach, a writer and university professor, was struggling to get his daughter vivien, then aged two, to sleep, and joked on facebook about writing a. In which i read go the f to sleep but with swears enabled. He was the 20102011 new voices professor of fiction at rutgers university.
Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, california book awardwinning author adam mansbachs verses perfectly capture the familiarand unspokentribulations of putting your little angel down. Go the fk to sleep kindle edition by mansbach, adam. Everybody tells you reading storys will put kids to sleep but it never works it didnt in my house the cats nestle close to there kittens the lambs have laid. Beautifully illustrated and written in the same witty prose style as. Noni hazlehurst reads expletiveridden childrens book. David byrne, musician, father of one beautiful, brilliant, funny as fuck. Go the fuck to sleep is a book written by american author adam mansbach and illustrated by ricardo cortes. Go the fk 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. At the time, the book was a revelation for tired parents who, of course, still love their children, but really and truly need kids to take a break for a bit. Go the fk to sleep, read by samuel l jackson youtube. Go the fk to sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes dont always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Described as a childrens book for adults, it reached no.
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