
Go the Fuck to Sleep
WW Norton · Hardcover · June 21, 2011
The #1 New York Times bestseller—a gift book for parents that will have them laughing even as they cry.
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- Who it’s for
- A rude little lullaby for anyone who has ever negotiated bedtime with a small dictator.
- Genres
- Marriage & Family Humor, Adult Humor, Limericks & Light Verse
- Published
- WW Norton, June 21, 2011
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One of Reader's Digest's "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." —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 Go the Fuck 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 Fuck to Sleep is beautiful, subversive, and pants-wittingly funny—a book for parents new, old, and expectant. You probably should not read it to your children.
Bedtime, Reloaded
A rude little lullaby for anyone who has ever negotiated bedtime with a small dictator.
Come here for
- snappy bedtime exasperation
- giftable joke-book energy
Expect
- parental recognition
- playful, profane comic timing
Where it sits
| Marriage & Family Humor | 41% |
|---|---|
| Adult Humor | 38% |
| Limericks & Light Verse | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Pop Culture & Art
- Limericks & Light Verse
- Marriage & Family Humor
- Authors
- Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortés
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Published
- June 21, 2011
- Format
- Hardcover
- Reading lane
- Pop Culture & Art