Go the Fuck to Sleep [Hardcover]

One of Delightfully obscene. By any definition, the subversive Adam Mansbach's Perfectly timed, lightly applied touches of profanity are funny. Super funny. It's especially the case when the profanity puts words to common feelings that we aren't really allowed to own up to. Well, in that spirit comes this perfect little picture-book parody. Anyone who has ever had a newborn, an infant, a baby, a toddler, a preschooler . . . oh, heck, anyone who has ever known a young child will understand the impetus behind Adam Mansbach's runaway bestseller and 'children's book for adults.' The bracing language may be earning it headlines, but its true appealand, I suspect, the reason it has caught on with the toddler-terrorised masseslies in its unapologetic acknowledgment that early parenthood is a struggle, a state defined as often by frustration as delight. For the exhausted parent, nudged to the brink of sanity by lack of sleep, Total genius.