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SERIOUSLY, JUST GO TO SLEEP

Ricardo Cortés Adam Mansbach

The much-anticipated, 100% child-friendly, G-rated version of the international blockbuster Go the F*** to Sleep.
The one shortcoming of the instant international bestseller and cultural phenomenon Go the Fuck to Sleep is that children cannot join in the fun. That problem has now been remedied with a 100 percent child-friendly alternate version. As parents know, young children are well aware of the difficulty of getting them to bed. Seriously, Just Go to Sleep lets them relish their own mischievousness, recognize their own tactics, and, most importantly, allows children and parents to joke with one another about one of the most stressful elements of a parent's life: getting his or her child to sleep.

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, Granta, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. He is the 2010-2011 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University. His daughter, Vivien, is three.

Ricardo Cortes has illustrated books about marijuana, electricity, the Jamaican bobsled team, and Chinese food. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine, the Village Voice, the San Francisco Chronicle, and on the O'Reilly Factor and CNN. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he is working on a book about the history of Coca-Cola and cocaine. To see more of his work, visit: Rmcortes.com.
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Published 2012-03-01 by Akashic Books

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Published 2012-03-01 by Akashic Books

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Now there's a version, complete with more of the gorgeous, yet weirdly subversive illustrations. The best part? It's still funny. The rhythms, the plodding rhymes, the illustrations, the clever play on the overused trope of the world at bedtime -- they all work together to take Seriously, Just Go to Sleep beyond parody and into the realm where good children's books belong: things that parents, and children, can honestly come to from different places and enjoy together. I can imagine reading Seriously, Go to Sleep nightly, and even to the point where you're begging the child to choose something else (the ultimate compliment for a picture book) and yet still finding something to enjoy. It captures a different 'zeitgeist' of modern parenting.

From the team that touched off the irreverent humor trend Go the F**k to Sleep, author Adam Mansbach and illustrator Ricardo Cortes, comes a new kid-friendly version of their instant comic classic. Seriously, Just Go to Sleep brings children in on the joke, helping them understand their own tactics and why their parents just want them to go... to sleep.