Go the F**k to Sleep

Adam Mansbach

Jun 2011 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

The #1 New York Times Bestseller: “A hilarious take on that age-old problem: getting the beloved child to go to sleep” (NPR).

“Hell no, you can’t go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The f**k to sleep.”

Go the Fuck to Sleep is a 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, it captures the familiar—and unspoken—tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night.

Read by a host of celebrities, from Samuel L. Jackson to Jennifer Garner, this subversively funny bestselling storybook will not actually put your kids to sleep, but it will leave you laughing so hard you won’t care.

This ebook edition of Go the F**k to Sleep is enhanced with extra content. Read along with award-winning director Werner Herzog and listen to Christopher Walken–style and Al Pacino–style narrations by comedian Misha Goberman. Watch Adam Mansbach, illustrator Ricardo Cortés, and publisher Johnny Temple talk about the genesis of the book and the worldwide fanfare in short videos, go behind the scenes of the launch party at the New York Public Library, and laugh out loud at some of the most viral Go the F**k to Sleep memes.

Ratings and reviews

Hilarious. Relatable. Having kids is hard, putting them to bed is harder. This book is great for some last minute laughs before putting myself to bed. 10/10 recommend this to all parents, unless you're offended by cuss words.

wait, i just finished purchasing this book, i thought, and then it flashed that i can read it best on an tablet or some freaking thing. i thought i was buying the goddmaned book?!? seeeeeriously? can i return this and get the friction book. i don't even know where this one i supposedly bought went?!?!? f-in' a....

The reality parents feel at times lol. Just hilarious. Also, I love how a reviewer says it was bad proceeded by "WTF I'm a child and I saw this? "...This must be a book for them using the acronym WTF haha. Not such a child I suppose! LOL

About the author

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, Poets & Writers, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. He is the 2011 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University. His daughter, Vivien, is three. Ricardo Cortés has illustrated books about marijuana, electricity, the Jamaican bobsled team, and Chinese food. His work has been featured in theNew York Times, Entertainment Weekly, theVillage Voice, theSan Francisco Chronicle, and on CNN and FOX News. He lives in Brooklyn, where he is working on a book about the history of coffee, cocaine, and Coca-Cola.