Go The F·ck To Sleep

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This seasons must have new children’s book, isn’t aimed at children at all!

The tongue-in-cheek bedtime book for parents which exhorts children to “Go the f·ck to sleep” has soared to the top of Amazon’s bestseller chart, a month before publication. After an eBook version became viral on the internet the publishers, Akashic Books, have decided to move forward the launch to June.

Go the F·ck To Sleep is a bedtime book, illustrated by Ricardo Cortes, for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always fit the bill.

The windows are dark in the town, child.
The whales huddle down in the deep.
I’ll read you one very last book if you swear
You’ll go the f·ck to sleep.

Rumour has it that film rights have been snapped up by either Fox or Canongate so expect to see feature animations in the future.

It’s “definitely not a book to read to your child” explained Akashic Books, “it will resonate with anyone who has ever spent 20 minutes, 40 minutes, four hours reading ‘just one more bedtime story’.”