Go the F*ck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach

A million bloggers have already posted this and it's been featured in The New York Times and  The New Yorker, but I'm posting it anyway since it was sent to me by my friend, who is L.A.'s coolest children's librarian. It's also a genius accompaniment to today's second post, Bye, Bye Baby. I swear that little shoeless nugget on the cover is Sabine: at home with the tigers, or any other fearless, wild animal.

"With illustrations by Ricardo Cortes, Go the F*ck to Sleep is beautiful, subversive, and pants-wettingly funny--a book for parents new, old, and expectant. You probably should not read it to your children." --Amazon.com

"Total genius." --Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn, father of two

"A children's book for grown-ups! I really did laugh out loud--hilarious!" --David Byrne, musician, father of one

(*Available October 2011)