# Go de Rass to Sleep: (A Jamaican Translation) - Hardcover

by **Adam Mansbach** (Author), **Ricardo Cort?s** (Illustrator), **Kwame Dawes** (Translator)

"No matter what the country or the language, parents all over the world--loving, frustrated, exhausted parents--know what Adam Mansbach means. Since 2011, his comically obscene picture book has sold more than 1.5 million copies in dozens of languages from Afrikaans to Japanese to Nynorsk. And later this year, his little book will venture into new territory with a Jamaican patois translation: '_Go de R-s to Sleep_.'" --_The Washington Post/Style Blog_  
  
"This version of Adam Mansbach's profane, affectionate, and radically honest book will remind whole new audiences about the absurdities of parenting. Just don't read it to the kids." --_Advocate.com_, The 20 Greatest New Father's Day Gifts

The best-selling _Go the F\*\*\* to Sleep_ has been translated into over thirty languages worldwide. Now it is finally translated for Jamaican and other Caribbean parents of the world.  
  
_Go de Rass to Sleep_ is a bedtime 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, California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach's verses perfectly capture the familiar--and unspoken--tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. In the process, they open up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations, and laugh at their absurdity.  
  
With illustrations by Ricardo Cortés, _Go de Rass to Sleep_ is beautiful, subversive, and pants-wettingly funny--a book for parents new, old, and expectant. You probably should not read it to your children.

### Author Biography

**Adam Mansbach**'s novels include _Rage Is Back, 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 author of the worldwide best seller _Go the F\*\*\* to Sleep._

**Ricardo Cortés** is best known for illustrating the #1 _New York Times_ best-selling _Go the F\*\*\* to Sleep_; and the G-rated follow-up, _Seriously, Just Go to Sleep._ Cortés first gained notoriety after his debut, _It's Just a Plant_\--a children's book about marijuana, sparked controversy from _The O'Reilly Factor_ to Capitol Hill. He has illustrated books about electricity, the Jamaican bobsled team, and jury nullification. His work has been featured in _Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, New York Post, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle,_ and on CNN and FOX News. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

**Kwame Dawes** was born in Ghana and raised in Jamaica. He is the author of fourteen books of poetry and many books of fiction, nonfiction, criticism, and drama, including _Gomer's Song_; and editor of several anthologies of poetry, including _So Much Things To Say._

**Kellie Magnus** is a Jamaican children's book author. Her books are part of the BookStart Jamaica early childhood program given to newborns by the Government of Jamaica as well as the Literacy 123 collection used in Jamaican primary schools. She is also the author of the popular Little Lion series. She serves on the boards of the National Library of Jamaica, the Early Childhood Commission, and the Book Industry Association of Jamaica.

**Number of Pages:** 32

**Dimensions:** 0.4 x 6.3 x 8.4 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** June 10, 2014

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- **Price:** 14.95 USD
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