From Goodreads ~ "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, he opens up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations and laugh at their absurdities.With illustrations by Ricardo Cortes, "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.
This has been on the Toronto Star's top ten books for a while so I thought I'd check it out.
It's cute and I imagine very true.
It's quite short ... only 32 pages. But it's a fun read.
Here's a sample (it's page 12) ... click on it to make it bigger.
6 comments:
I read this one. I was cracking up. Guess I'll be experiencing that pretty soon.
You need to hear the audio book narrated by Samuel L. Jackson! I nearly peed my pants from laughing :)
Izzy: Any day now!
Julie: I'd read that he did it. I bet it's goooooood!
I heard this on YouTube. Cracked me up!
I read it in the bookstore :) Im glad I didnt buy it because although I have shared the sentiment I dont really want the boys picking it up and asking me to read it to them!
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