Number One Bestseller for Parents: Go the F*** to Sleep
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Whatever happened to Grimm’s Fairy Tales, or Little Red Riding Hood. How about Winnie the Pooh? A little Robinson Crusoe if old enough? Too much violence. Oh well. It seems there is a brand new book, not scheduled for release until June 14, 2011, on the hit parade:
Check this out from our dear friends at Newser:
Go the F*** to Sleep snagged the No. 1 spot on Amazon’s best-seller list this week—almost a month before it hits bookshelves—and Rebekah Denn thinks she knows why. The 32-page book blends soothing rhymes with sleep-deprivation-induced obscenity, and the Internet-savvy attribute its early success to a viral PDF-sharing spree, “Nope,” writes Denn, a parent of three, in the Christian Science Monitor. Her friends are all ordering copies, but it’s because of the shared sense of suffering, not a sly marketing campaign.
Sleepless nights drove Go the F*** to Sleep’s author, Adam Mansbach, to post a Facebook update that read, “Look out for my forthcoming children’s book, ‘Go the — to Sleep’”—and the universal response drove him to actually follow through. While waxing sentimental about her thirdborn, Denn’s even considering buying a copy: “I want to remind myself, that yes, [parenting] really was hard—so hard that we all laughed just at the mere idea of a book that dared to be profane about such a topic.”
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I know that Carol and I were inordinately lucky.
Only 3 sleepless nights in the first 10 years – now that is more than lucky….followed by a daughter who was an International gymnast who therefore developed discipline in her life resulting in – we even avoided the ‘rebellious’ ‘sulky’ teen phase.
We were lucky.
Very lucky.
(She ended up 2nd in the UK and 7th in Europe when she was forced to retire due to a back problem)
….Just so yer know…
…Proud Dad….
I think I’d like to read this for the hell of it…
🙂 I pre ordered several of them, for friends of mine that have kids as Xmas gifts for this year, a couple weeks ago, and it was starting the creep up the list. What can I say, I’m the person that sticks vampire binkys in baskets for friends and diaper cakes, when I make them up for baby showers, this will add to the fun of baby shower gifting also. I can sit back and watch the horrified looks, on the more gentile people, at these gatherings and have a laugh.
Sold out before even being released and at the very top of the list to beat. This is one lucky author, especially given the book is only 32 pages long. Good deal.