"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. "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." "Bedtimes are precious but occasionally precarious times and I wish someone had given me this hilarious book sooner. "For me and many parents the Gina Ford sleep routine never quite worked," said Canongate editor Francis Bickmore, a father of two. Profane, affectionate and refreshingly honest, it captures the familiar and unspoken tribulations of putting your child to bed for the night. 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'." 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 dont always send a toddler sailing off to dreamland. 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. 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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