Go de Rass to Sleep A Jamaican Trans..., Adam Mansbach
Go de Rass to Sleep A Jamaican Trans..., Adam Mansbach
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Go de Rass to Sleep (A Jamaican Translation)

Author: Adam Mansbach, Kwame Dawes, Kellie Magnus

Narrator: Shaggy

Unabridged: 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/10/2014

Synopsis

The bestselling Go the F*** to Sleep has been translated into over thirty languages worldwide. Now it is finally translated for Jamaican and other Caribbean parents of the world.Go de Rass to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Award–winning author Adam Mansbach's verses perfectly capture the familiar—and unspoken—tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. In the process, they open up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations and laugh at their absurdity.Go de Rass 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.

About Adam Mansbach

Adam Mansbach is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep, which has been translated into forty languages and sold over three million copies worldwide, as well as the novels Rage Is Back, Angry Black White Boy, and The End of the Jews, winner of the California Book Award.

About Kwame Dawes

Kwame Dawes was born in Ghana and raised in Jamaica. He is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and many books of fiction, nonfiction, criticism, and drama, including Gomer’s Song. He is also the editor of several anthologies of poetry, including So Much Things to Say.

About Kellie Magnus

Kellie Magnus is a Jamaican children’s book author. Her books are part of the BookStart Jamaica early childhood program given to newborns by the government of Jamaica, as well as the Literacy 123 collection used in Jamaican primary schools. She is also the author of the popular Little Lion series. She serves on the boards of the National Library of Jamaica, the Early Childhood Commission, and the Book Industry Association of Jamaica.

About Shaggy

Shaggy exploded onto the music scene in 1993 with his debut album Pure Pleasure. He released his sophomore album, Boombastic (1995), which was certified platinum and won a Grammy for Best Reggae Album. In 2000 he released his fourth album, Hot Shot, which went Diamond worldwide and Platinum six times in the United States. Notable singles from that album included “It Wasn’t Me” and “Angel.” “It Wasn’t Me” received a Grammy nomination. In 2008 he developed the Shaggy Foundation, which has helped raise more than $85 million for the Bustamante hospital in Jamaica. In September 2013, Sly & Robbie Presents Shaggy was released as a collaboration album entitled “Out of Many, One Music.” The album has already received tremendous feedback from industry tastemakers.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Federico

F*cking funny! The day is over, the night has set in; Your kid is a joyful, innocent and sweet; But for chrissakes, the little brat is restless; Why on earth, can’t he f*cking sleep! This review will be short, as it should be; No detailed analysis, no rec I can give; This book is so funny, haha you wil......more

Goodreads review by Kat Kennedy

I can't express how much I love this book. My son is currently whining because he's supposed to be napping. Yeah, good fucking luck on that one. But this book is so awesome because it's true. I think I've thought almost every word in this book toward my son at some point. Seriously, boy! Mummy needs he......more

Quotes

“No matter what the country or the language, parents all over the world—loving, frustrated, exhausted parents—know what Adam Mansbach means. Since 2011 his comically obscene picture book has sold more than 1.5 million copies in dozens of languages, from Afrikaans to Japanese to Nynorsk.” Washington Post Online

“A new bible for weary parents.” New York Times on Go the F*** to Sleep

“Delightfully obscene.” Newsweek on Go the F*** to Sleep

“Nothing has driven home a certain truth about my generation, which is approaching the apex of its childbearing years, quite like this deranged book.” New Yorker on Go the F*** to Sleep

“A parenting zeitgeist…A phenomenon that has stunned the publishing world and may just redefine the modern ‘parenting’ market.” Washington Post on Go the F*** to Sleep

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