A Reader’s Digest “25 Funniest Books of All Time””Nothing has driven home a certain truth about my generation, which is approaching the apex of its childbearing years, quite like this.”–The New Yorker”A parenting zeitgeist”–Washington Post”A hilarious take on that age-old problem: getting the beloved child to go to sleep.”–National Public Radio”A new Bible for weary parents”–New York Times”Resonates powerfully with almost everyone”–Boston Globe”This children’s book parody earns its place on the list by being a much-needed bit of catharsis that every parent needs.”–Fatherly, one of the 10 Best Parenting Books of the Decade”Go the Fk to Sleep challenges stereotypes, opens up prototypes, and acknowledges that shared sense of failure that comes to all parents who weary of ever getting their darling(s) to sleep and briefly resuming the illusion of a life of their own.”–Midwest Book ReviewGo 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. 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 Cortes, Go the Fk 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.Seriously, Just Go to Sleep, a children’s book inspired by Go the Fk to Sleep and appropriate for kids of all ages, is also available, as well as Seriously, You Have to Eat for finicky ones everywhere!
Adam Mansbach’s novels include The End of the Jews, winner of the California Book Award, and the best-selling 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, Granta, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. He was the 2010-2011 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University.His daughter, Vivien, is three.
Ricardo is the author and illustrator of “Sea Creatures from the Sky,” “It’s Just a Plant,” and “A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola.” He is also the illustrator of a #1 New York Times best-selling classic for parents about putting their children to bed, as well as the G-rated follow-up, “Seriously, Just Go to Sleep.”
