# Seriously, Just Go to Sleep - Hardcover

by **Adam Mansbach** (Author), **Ricardo Cort駸** (Illustrator)

"Now there's a version, complete with more of the gorgeous, yet weirdly subversive illustrations . . . that you can read to your children . . . 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." --_New York Times_

_Seriously, Just Go to Sleep_ is the G-rated, traditional-sized, children's version of the book every parent has been talking about. _Go the F\*\*\* to Sleep_, the picture book for adults, became a cultural sensation by striking a universal chord for parents. Now, Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cort駸 reunite with _Seriously, Just Go to Sleep_, inviting the children themselves in on the joke. As parents know, kids are well aware of how difficult they can be at bedtime. With Cort駸's updated illustrations (including a cameo appearance by Samuel L. Jackson, who narrated the audio book version of _Go the F\*\*\* to Sleep_) and Mansbach's new child-appropriate narrative, the book allows kids to recognize their tactics, giggle at their own mischievousness, and empathize with their parents' struggles--a perspective most children's books don't capture. Most important, it provides a common ground for children and their parents to talk about one of the most stressful aspects of parenting.

_Seriously, Just Go to Sleep_ came to be when Mansbach read a highly censored rendition of the original book to his three-year-old daughter, and she recognized herself as the culprit and was delighted. "We were getting a lot of feedback from parents, saying that their kids loved the book--read in an altered form--because they recognized themselves in the character of the mischievous kid who's winning the bedtime battle, and thought it was hilarious. So we figured we'd do a companion volume that lets kids in on the fun."

### Author Biography

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 was the 2010-2011 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University.His daughter, Vivien, is three.

Ricardo Cort駸 has illustrated books about grass, 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 a shark. To see more of his work, visit: Rmcortes.com.

  

**Number of Pages:** 32

**Dimensions:** 0.4 x 8.4 x 11.2 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** March 27, 2012

## Details

- **Price:** 16.95 USD
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- **Type:** Books
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