Go the F#$k to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world. With illustrations by Ricardo Cortes, this book is perfect for parents new, old, and expectant who want a good laugh and a break from the usual cutesy bedtime stories.
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Go the F#$k to Sleep is not your typical bedtime book for toddlers. It’s a hilarious and subversive take on the familiar and unspoken struggles of putting your little ones to bed. Written by California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach, this book is profane, affectionate, and radically honest. It opens up a conversation about the frustrations of parenting and grants permission to admit them while finding humor in their absurdity. With beautiful illustrations by Ricardo Cortes, this book is a must-read for every exhausted parent out there.
Go the F**k to Sleep
Open Road Media. 2011The #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...
You Have to Fucking Eat
Canongate Books. 2014From the author of the international best seller GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP comes a book about the other great parental frustration: getting your little angel to eat something that even vaguely resembles a normal meal. Profane, loving and deeply cathartic, You Have to Fucking Eat breaks the code of child-rearing silence, giving mums and dads new, old, grand- and expectant a much-needed chance to laugh about a universal problem. You probably shouldn't read it to your children.
Fuck, Now There Are Two of You
Canongate Books. 2019It turns out that two is a million more kids than one. Adam Mansbach famously gave voice to two of parenting's primal struggles in Go the Fuck to Sleep and You Have to Fucking Eat. Now Fuck, Now There Are Two of You tackles a new addition to the family and all the fears and frustrations attendant to the simple, math-defying fact that two is a million more kids than one. As you probably know by now, you shouldn't read it to a child.
Go the F**k to Sleep
Text Publishing. 2011Go the F**k to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it perfectly capture the familiar tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. In the process, it opens up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations, and laugh at their absurdity.
If You Give a Kid a Cookie, Will He Shut the F**k Up?
St. Martin's Griffin. 2011Before they Go the Fuck to Sleep, they need to Shut the Fuck Up If you give a kid a cookie, will he shut the fuck up? That is the question at the heart of this hilarious, deeply honest, profanity-laced book for parents who will do whatever it takes for a moment's peace. What really happens when you give in to your child's tantrums? The events that follow this seemingly simple act will test parents to the breaking point...while entertaining the millions of us who have been there ourselves...
The Go the Fuck to Sleep Box Set
Celebrating a decade of profane, loving, and deeply cathartic children's books for adults, the entire Go the Fuck to Sleep trilogy is finally available in a collectors'-edition boxed set--including a 'Tired Parents on Board' sticker! Critical praise for Go the Fuck to Sleep: A New York Times, Amazon.com, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly number one best seller. One of Reader's Digest's 25 Funniest Books of All Time! "A new Bible for weary parents." --New York Times "Incredibly...