Adam Mansbach was tired one night after trying to put his two-year old daughter, Vivien, to sleep. I’m guessing it wasn’t the first night of dealing with the bedtime routine because he updated his Facebook status jokingly saying that he was writing a book called Go the F*ck  to Sleep. The response from his Facebook friends was so overwhelming that he called on an illustrator friend, Ricardo Cortés, and got the independent publisher Akashic Books in New York on board to make his Facebook status a  reality.

It is the book that many parents think to themselves every night at bedtime but that few have had the “courage” to say out loud.  The book is written as a bedtime story but is er, rather graphic in its pleading for the child to go to sleep..

Go the F–k to Sleep has gone viral – and you can get your own copy here.

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UPDATE: The brilliant author and Mamamia columnist Kerri Sackville has whipped up this reponse to Go The F*** To Sleep.

It’s called Let Me Go The F*** To Sleep: A Wife’s Lament

Oh that’s bloody heaven. You can catch more of Kerri here and really you should. You can see her interview with MM’s Rick and Lana here, all about her book When My Husband Does The Dishes…..

If you could write a book, ANY book, what would it be about and what would you love to say ?