"It's more like a parenting book for when the parent is inconsolable in the middle of night and frustrated." (Rotella warns parents not to leave the book lying around for children to see, noting that the illustrations are captivating.) Mark Rotella, senior editor at Publishers Weekly "It's more like a parenting book for when the parent is inconsolable in the middle of night and frustrated." They help parents step back and laugh at themselves a bit," said Mark Rotella, senior editor at Publishers Weekly and father of a 5- and 2 -year-old. "Looking at parenting books, there are more and more books that are less earnest about raising your child. We're not completely honest because we don't want to be bad parents." "A lot of these frustrations are not permissible to talk about. The nightly exhaustion is "a frustrating part about something we love very much," said Mansbach, a visiting professor at Rutgers University. Independent publisher Akashic Books has responded to preorders and overwhelming Internet interest by increasing its first printing to at least 150,000 copies and moving up the publication date from October to June. "Go the F**k to Sleep" hits a nerve with parents who hope for a life after their kids' bedtime. Every single page, you're like 'yes, yes.' You don't need water, you don't need to go to the bathroom. "I laughed and laughed and laughed," said Colleen Oppenzato, a Brooklyn mother of a 3-year-old boy who fights sleep every night and a 1-year-old girl who doesn't. How come you can do all this other great sh*tīut you can't lie the f**k down and sleep? Illustrator Ricardo Cortés captures the colorful mood of Mansbach's poetry. Instead, he turned his frustration into writing " Go the F**k to Sleep," a tongue-in-cheek adult bedtime book that has swept the Internet and has already hit No.1 on the Amazon bestseller list a month before its June 14 publication date. The noted author didn't keep his feelings to himself. The possibility that he would never get to leave her room for dinner or a glass of wine or the world outside became a distinct possibility. And she definitely didn't need Dad to make up another story about farm animals having a picnic and dozing off. (CNN) - Adam Mansbach's toddler wasn't thirsty.
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