This is the book I needed about 20 years ago. When Adam Mansbach’s daughter Vivien was two, seen here in a rare photograph of them both actually asleep, she would usually take at least two hours to fall asleep.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Exhausted and exasperated, (Jason and Walter know that this feels like), one night Mansbach posted a note on Boldbook, “Look out for my forthcoming children’s book, Go the Fuck to Sleep“. Following his post, friends of Mansbach responded enthusiastically, so that Mansbach began writing what was then only a hypothetical book. Mansbach had the illustrations for the picture book done by a friend, illustrator Ricardo Cortés , and approached Akashic Books, a book publisher from New York. I read about this in the IrishTimes last week and again yesterday in the Guardian. “The first couple of years were pretty rough, though I should point out that it was my partner who dealt with it 75% of the time. In fact, she has only permitted me to speak about the book at all if I make it clear to everyone I talk to that it was mostly her. She says that if she hadn’t been so tired herself, she’d have written it.” Read the full Guardian article HERE

Buy it HERE from the 14th June. But first listen to it being read by Ray Herman…

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