Go the F**k to Sleep
A warm and loving book recommendation for Mother’s Day.
The cats nestle close to their kittens now.
The lambs have laid down with the sheep.
You’re cozy and warm in your bed, my dear
Please go the fuck to sleep.
I learned about Go the F**k to Sleep
From the Amazon description:
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 Cortes, Go the Fuck 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.
Even I have to agree, don’t read it to your children — not yet anyway, though it’s not nearly as damaging as that creepy Love You Forever story. But you still might want to buy them a copy now, and pass it on when they have children of their own. That way, when they sneak into your nursing home room in the middle of the night and rock you in the rocking chair, you’ll at least have something to laugh about.
I like that cover illustration. The negative comments about this book crack me up. I would think non-children would get right away that this picture book isn’t for kids. But, I do hope bookstore folks know enough not to shelf it in the kids section. I won’t be surprised though if I read about it happening somewhere such as, uhm, say in Texas.
Interesting that you thought that “love you forever” story was creepy.Should we consider reserving a hallway at the county bed,drool and sometimes breakfast?
I have at least five friends who need this book immediately. I’ll just be adding it to the Amazon order I’m about to place.
Su-sieee, I didn’t read the comments. Maybe I’ll save that for my evening treat, as I’m sure they are very smug and self righteously delicious.
Dad, I thought we had this covered. You get to live in my basement. You can have all the food and Fox News you can handle.
Lynette, glad to help!
This was not at all what I assumed this post was going to be about. Based on the title I was expecting this to anything but a book review. Lol. I’m gonna try to find this book.