![]() ![]() "It captures the frustration of being in a room with a kid and feeling like you may actually never leave that room again, that you may spend the rest of your life in that dark room, trying to get your kid to go to sleep. 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. "Initially the audience was me and my wife," he told the Associated Press. Vivien is now three, and Mansbach says that she is sleeping better. It's an essential gift for any parent you know who lives in the real world." 'The third installment in the adult picture book series that started with Go the Fk to Sleep addresses an older sibling whose family is invaded by a new addition. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach's verses perfectly capture the familiar-and unspoken. "Bedtimes are precious but occasionally precarious times and I wish someone had given me this hilarious book sooner. 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. "For me and many parents the Gina Ford sleep routine never quite worked," said Canongate editor Francis Bickmore, a father of two. It's "definitely not a book to read to your child", said the publisher, but "it will resonate with anyone who has ever spent 20 minutes, 40 minutes, four hours reading 'just one more bedtime story'." How come you can do all this other great shit / But you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?"įilm rights have now been optioned by Fox 2000, and Canongate has snapped up UK rights in the title. "The cubs and the lions are snoring,/ Wrapped in a big snuggly heap. Go The Fuck To Sleep By Adam Mansbach Go The F To Sleep Is A Bedtime Book For Parents Who Live In The Real World, Where A Few Snoozing Kitties And Cutesy. Lie the fuck down, my darling, and sleep," writes Mansbach in the book, illustrated by Ricardo Cortes. "The eagles who soar through the sky are at rest / And the creatures who crawl, run and creep. ![]()
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