New Releases by Adam Mansbach

This laugh-out-loud, latest installment in Adam Mansbach’s profane, #1 New York Times best-selling series, probably CAN be read to—and by—your graduating child, though it might bring you all to tears WHEN YOUR KID IS LITTLE, the paradoxes of parenting are simple: you can love your child to death, and also be willing to do anything to get them to go the fuck to sleep. But by the time your precious little baby bird is getting ready to spread its wings and leave the nest? That’s a whole different level of complexity. You’re happy and sad. Thrilled and devastated. You want to give them all the advice you can, but you know they’ve got to make their own mistakes. You want them to know they can always come home, but also you’re turning their bedroom into a gym. With Adam Mansbach’s trademark honesty, humor, and profanity, Go the Fuck to College perfectly captures the complicated emotional reality of this poignant, fraught, exciting time. A perfect gift for any graduating senior—or their parents or grandparents—this book somehow encapsulates everything you’d ever want to tell your kid . . . along with a few things you’d never dream of saying out loud.

#1 best-selling reggae artist Stick Figure (Scott Woodruff) and #1 New York Times best-selling author Adam Mansbach team up for a sweet, funny children''s picture book about a real-life rescue dog turned worldwide icon Cocoa the Tour Dog is the saga of an Australian shepherd who meets her soul mate: a struggling musician, Scott, with dreams of spreading love on stages across the globe. When Scott''s work starts to pay off, Cocoa wanders onstage herself and finds sudden fame—and the two of them embark on an adventure that takes them around the world playing music, delighting fans, and ignoring leash laws. But as the pace of life quickens, Cocoa begins to feel worn out—she misses the simpler times, and she''s no longer seeing the world with puppy eyes. Luckily, Scott has just the thing to restore Cocoa''s sense of wonder: a little sister dog. The two of them set off on an adventure to add Molly to the family, and soon Cocoa is teaching the puppy all about life on the road . . . and even how to take it to the stage.

The dazzlingly imaginative, ferociously funny story of an art teacher, a bodega clerk, and a five-thousand-year-old clay crisis monster, from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep. “A devastating romp through history, a bonkers road trip through America, this novel could not be any funnier—or any more important.”—W. Kamau Bell In Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated through secret prayers. Its sole purpose is to defend the Jewish people against the immediate threat of violence. It is always a rabbi who makes a golem, and always in a time of crisis. But Len Bronstein is no rabbi—he’s a Brooklyn art teacher who steals a large quantity of clay from his school, gets extremely stoned, and manages to bring his creation to life despite knowing little about Judaism and even less about golems. Unable to communicate with his nine-foot-six, four hundred-pound, Yiddish-speaking guest, Len enlists a bodega clerk and ex-Hasid named Miri Apfelbaum to translate. Eventually, The Golem learns English by binge-watching Curb Your Enthusiasm after ingesting a massive amount of LSD and reveals that he is a creature with an ancestral memory; he recalls every previous iteration of himself, making The Golem a repository of Jewish history and trauma. He demands to know what crisis has prompted his re-creation and whom must he destroy. When Miri shows him a video of white nationalists marching and chanting “Jews will not replace us,” the answer becomes clear. The Golem of Brooklyn is an epic romp through Jewish history and the American present that wrestles with the deepest questions of our humanity—the conflicts between faith and skepticism, tribalism and interdependence, and vengeance and healing.

An instant New York Times bestseller! From the bestselling author of Go the **** to Sleep and healthy eating advocate Camila Alves McConaughey comes a whimsical role reversal in which picky eater parents are confronted by their three kids, with hilarious results These three kids are determined to get their parents to put down the ice cream, cake, and chicken fried steak to just try one bite of healthy whole foods. But it''s harder than it looks when these over-the-top gagging, picky parents refuse to give things like broccoli and kale a chance. Kids will love the jaunty rhyme that''s begging to be read aloud and the opportunity to be way smarter—and healthier—than their parents.

Celebrating a decade of profane, loving, and deeply cathartic children''s books for adults, the entire Go the Fuck to Sleep trilogy is finally available in a collectors''-edition boxed set. "You''ve probably heard of the book Go the F**k to Sleep and its two sequels— You Have to F**king Eat and F**k, Now There Are Two of You. But did you know it''s been a full decade since the first book become a brilliant and hilarious phenomenon?" — Fatherly Ten years ago, Adam Mansbach crystallized the secret agony of parents the world over with one simple phrase: Go the Fuck to Sleep. In verses that perfectly capture the familiar tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night, the book opened up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations, and laugh at their absurdity . . . and the message only resonated louder when Samuel L. Jackson, the bard of the F-word, read the audiobook. You Have to Fucking Eat expanded the conversation to include parenthood''s other universal frustration: getting your little angel to eat something that even vaguely resembles a normal meal, with Bryan Cranston voicing the audiobook . . . and because life moves pretty fast, Fuck, Now There Are Two of You soon became necessary, to address the fact that two is, somehow, a million more kids than one—with Larry David doing the audiobook honors. And now, to celebrate a decade of profane, loving, and deeply cathartic children''s books for adults, the entire trilogy is finally available in a collectors''-edition boxed set, perfect for gifting at a baby shower or using to knock yourself unconscious. As always . . . you probably should not read these books to a child.

A brilliant, genre-defying work—both memoir and epic poem—about the struggle for wisdom, grace, and ritual in the face of unspeakable loss “A bruised and brave love letter from a brother right here to a brother now gone . . . a soaring, unblinking gaze into the meaning of life itself.”—Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf my father said david has taken his own life Adam is in the middle of his own busy life, and approaching a career high in the form of a #1 New York Times bestselling book—when these words from his father open a chasm beneath his feet. I Had a Brother Once is the story of everything that comes after. In the shadow of David’s inexplicable death, Adam is forced to re-remember a brother he thought he knew and to reckon with a ghost, confronting his unsettled family history, his distant relationship with tradition and faith, and his desperate need to understand an event that always slides just out of his grasp. This is an expansive and deeply thoughtful poetic meditation on loss and a raw, darkly funny, human story of trying to create a ritual—of remembrance, mourning, forgiveness, and acceptance—where once there was a life.

The third installment in Adam Mansbach''s international best-selling Go the Fuck to Sleep series addresses, with radical honesty, the family implosion that occurs when a second child arrives "If you''re a fan of both Larry David and profane children''s book parodies, don''t even try to curb your f*cking enthusiasm." — Kirkus Reviews Adam Mansbach famously gave voice to two of parenting''s primal struggles in Go the Fuck to Sleep and You Have to Fucking Eat—the often-imitated, never-duplicated pair of New York Times best sellers that ushered in a new era of radical honesty in humor books for parents. But what could possibly be left? Parents—new, old, expectant, and grand—of multiple children already knew the answer. Adam discovered it for himself by having two more kids, less than two years apart. Fuck, Now There Are Two of You is a loving monologue about the new addition to the family, addressed to a big sibling and shot through with Adam''s trademark profane truth-telling. Gorgeously illustrated and chock-full of unspoken sentiments channeled directly from the brains of parents worldwide, Fuck, Now There Are Two of You articulates all the fears and frustrations attendant to the simple, math-defying fact that two is a million more kids than one. As you probably know by now, you shouldn''t read it to a child.

A hilarious handbook from three big-deal award-winning humorists: "I laughed til I plotzed. Did I use that correctly?" —W. Kamau Bell, goyish comedian Immerse yourself in the essence of Jewish humor and culture with A Field Guide to the Jewish People, brought to you by New York Times–bestselling Pulitzer Prize winner Dave Barry, #1 New York Times–bestselling author Adam Mansbach, and Emmy and Thurber Prize–winning SNL alum Alan Zweibel. Join them as they dissect every holiday, rite of passage, and tradition, unravel a long and complicated history, and tackle the tough questions that have plagued Jews and non-Jews alike for centuries. Combining the sweetness of an apricot rugelach with the wisdom of a matzoh ball, this is the last book on Judaism that you will ever need. So gather up your chosen ones, open a bottle of Manischewitz, and get ready to enjoy some "bona fide gems" from the authors of For This We Left Egypt? ( New York Journal of Books). "No topic is off-limits." — Kirkus Reviews "Literally has a laugh-out-loud moment on every page, sometimes more than one." — Bookreporter

Après son incroyable succès au spectacle de son collège, Jake a trouvé sa vocation : il sera comique. Il faut dire qu''il est sacrément doué pour amuser la galerie ! Mais Jake se sent tellement bien dans son nouveau rôle qu''il a bien du mal à ne pas attraper la grosse tête... Parviendra-t-il à redescendre sur terre avant de se mettre toute l''école à dos ?

Jake neumí pořádně hrát ani na jediný nástroj, dokonce ani na kazoo (a to zvládne každý trouba). A výtvarné umění? Jeho výtvory by nevystavili ani na školní nástěnce, natož někde v galerii. Což je doopravdy problém, protože si právě prošvindloval cestičku do Akademie múzických a výtvarných umění pro schopné a talentované děti (a Jakeovi je jasné, že on není ani jedno z toho). Jenže rodiče od něj čekají stejný úspěch jako od jeho sestry, která už chodí do posledního ročníku a je nádherná a okouzlující a úžasná zpěvačka a jde jí zkrátka všechno, na co sáhne. Jake, který vyniká spíš smyslem pro humor než uměleckým nadáním, bude muset rychle něco vymyslet, než to na něj praskne a ze školy ho vyrazí. Ohromně zábavná kniha plná nekorektního humoru a kouzelných ilustrací Keithe Knighta. *** Craig Robinson je americký komik, hudebník a herec, který ve svém autorském debutu Jake je fake přenáší svůj úžasný smysl pro humor do psané podoby. Je známý hlavně účinkováním v americké verzi seriálu Kancl a hollywoodských komediálních blockbusterech Apokalypsa v Hollywoodu, To byl zítra flám a Travička zelená. V knize Jake je fake Robinson oživuje nejzábavnější okamžiky a zkušenosti z doby, kdy sám navštěvoval první chicagskou veřejnou školu pro nadané děti. Robinson stále hraje, vystupuje na jevišti a fandí White Sox. Adam Mansbach je romanopisec, scenárista, kritik a humorista. Jeho knihy Go the F*ck to Sleep a You Have to F*cking Eat se umístily na špici žebříčku bestsellerů The New York Times. V poslední době rozšířil svůj repertoár i o první thriller, The Dead run, a román pro děti Benjamin Franklin. Ilustrace Keith Knight

For fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate comes the first book in a side-splitting illustrated series from comedian and film star Craig Robinson, #1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Mansbach, and NAACP History Maker recipient and cartoonist Keith Knight. Jake can barely play an instrument, not even a kazoo. And his art? It’s better suited for Pictionary than Picasso. Which is a real problem because Jake just faked his way into the Music and Art Academy for the gifted and talented (and Jake is pretty sure he is neither). More jokester than composer, Jake will have to think of something quick before the last laugh is on him. Featuring more than 160 illustrations, Jake the Fake is sure to bring the laughs with his hilarious high jinks!

-Il ne faut jamais forcer un enfant a manger.-Aldo Naouri-Le midi, son papa lui disait: Mange tes epinards, mon petit lapin! Il repondait: Caca boudin! -Stephanie Blake-Aujourd hui les peres font ce qu ils peuvent, les pauvres.-Marcel Rufo Vous en reviez? Vous le redoutiez? Il l a fait! Quatre ans apres le succes planetaire de Dors et fais pas chier, le premier anti-livre jeunesse, Adam Mansbach recidive. Car ce n est pas tout d arriver a endormir son enfant. Encore faut-il le nourrir Et ca aussi, ca fait chier. Une page pour papa, une page pour maman Attention, ce livre n est toujours pas pour les enfants!"

From the author of the international bestseller Go the Fuck to Sleep comes a book about the other great parental frustration: getting your little angel to eat something that even vaguely resembles a normal meal. Profane, loving, and deeply cathartic, You Have to Fucking Eat breaks the code of child-rearing silence, giving mums and dads—new, old and expectant—a much-needed chance to laugh about a universal problem. You probably shouldn’t read it to your children.

A Jamaican patois translation of the New York Times , Amazon.com, and Wall Street Journal number one best seller and worldwide phenomenon. "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. And later this year, his little book will venture into new territory with a Jamaican patois translation: '' Go de R–s to Sleep.''" — The Washington Post/Style Blog "This version of Adam Mansbach''s profane, affectionate, and radically honest book will remind whole new audiences about the absurdities of parenting. Just don''t read it to the kids." — Advocate.com, The 20 Greatest New Father''s Day Gifts The best-selling 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. With illustrations by Ricardo Cortés, 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.

From the author of the international bestseller GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP comes a book about the other great parental frustration: getting your little angel to eat something that even vaguely resembles a normal meal. Profane, loving and deeply cathartic, YOU HAVE TO FUCKING EAT breaks the code of child-rearing silence, giving new, old, grand- and expectant parents a much-needed chance to laugh about a universal problem.**(You probably shouldn''t read it to your children.)

Adam Mansbach, the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author of Go the F**k to Sleep and Rage Is Back, turns to a new tale of suspense, horror, and supernatural action Wrongfully imprisoned in a Mexican jail, outlaw-with-a-conscience Jess Galvan accepts a devil''s bargain: transport a sinister package across the border in twenty-four hours for the jail''s mythical—and terrifying—bogeyman El Cucuy. If Jess can make it across alive and give the iron box to cult leader Aaron Seth, he will be free and able to regain custody of his estranged daughter. But as Jess navigates a blighted desert full of deadly surprises, girls go missing on both sides of the border and bodies begin to surface. It''s a deadly epidemic of crime that plunges small-town sheriff Bob Nichols into a monster of an investigation he''s not equipped to handle, especially when sixteen-year-old Sherry disappears. An ancient evil has awoken in the empty wastelands along the border and now everyone—the innocent and the guilty alike—must face their deepest fears as epic myth and human malice combine to bring forth the end of the world as we know it. With The Dead Run, acclaimed author Adam Mansbach mixes horror, the supernatural, and suspense to deliver a chilling, high-octane adventure.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Go the F*** to Sleep, “a rollicking, frenetic and hilarious jaunt” (San Francisco Chronicle) and an Amazon Best Book of the Month Raised in the shadow of two graffiti legends from New York’s “golden era” of subway bombing, Dondi Vance is less than thrilled to learn his father, Billy Rage, is back after sixteen years on the lam. But the transit cop who ruined Billy’s life and shattered his crew is running for mayor—and must be brought down. Welcome to the Great American Graffiti Novel.

A bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the familiar, and unspoken, tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night.

The G-rated, child-friendly version of the hilarious #1 New York Times bestselling classic! Go the F*** to Sleep, the picture book for adults, became a cultural sensation by striking a universal chord for parents (with a bit of potty-mouth language to help them vent their frustration). Now, Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés reunite with Seriously, Just Go to Sleep, inviting the children themselves in on the joke. Of course, kids are well aware of how difficult they can be at bedtime. With Mansbach''s new child-appropriate narrative, kids will recognize their tactics, giggle at their own mischievousness, and empathize with their parents'' struggles—a perspective most children''s books don''t capture. Most importantly, it provides a common ground for children and their parents to talk about one of their most stressful daily rituals. This fresh rendition includes Cortés''s updated illustrations, with a cameo appearance by Samuel L. Jackson, who narrated the audio book version of Go the F*** to Sleep

Wanneer de dieren en planten gaan slapen, proberen wanhopige en gefrustreerde ouders met allerlei trucjes ook hun peuters en kleuters in slaap te laten vallen. Prentenboek met grote, gekleurde tekeningen en tekst op rijm.

¡Duérmete ya, joder! es un cuento para sufridos padres con los pies en la tierra, donde un puñado de gatitos adormilados y rimas cursis no siempre ayudan a que las criaturas se entreguen a los brazos de Morfeo. ¡Duérmete ya, joder! habla de las familiares e íntimas amarguras que te embargan cuando intentas que tu pequeño angelito se vaya a la cama. Magnífico, subversivo y desternillante, es un libro para padres primerizos, experimentados... y para cualquiera que se lo esté pensando. Seguramente no deberías leérselo a tus hijos. Reseñas: «Una obra maestra.» Jonathan Lethem, padre de dos niños «El libro que ningún niño debería dejar al alcance de los adultos. Mansbach es un aguafiestas: sabotea el mito contemporáneo de la paternidad feliz y la lleva a su cruda y extenuante realidad.» Gabriela Wiener, escritora, autora de Nueve lunas y madre de Lena «¡Un cuento infantil para adultos! Me descojoné.» David Byrne, músico y padre de una criatura «Es físicamente imposible que tengas sed otra vez. ¿Cómo, a mear ahora? ¡Es la cuarta en lo que va de noche! No, no tengo ni p*** idea de dónde vive Papá Pitufo. ¿Un cuento? Ni lo sueñes. Túmbate, vas a despertar a tu hermano. No sé qué ruido hacen las zarigüeyas. ¿Yik-yik-yik? No sé dónde está tu madre. No, no pienso llamarla ahora. ¿Quién ganaría en un combate entre el dragón Desdentado y un velocirráptor? No sé, imagino que... ¡Son las cuatro de la mañana, joder! ¿Quieres hacer el santo favor de dormirte ya?» Kiko Amat, escritor, autor de Mil violines y padre de dos pelirrojos

Collons, posa''t a dormir! és un conte per a pares soferts que toquen de peus a terra, pels quals un grapat de gatets endormiscats i unes rimes cursis no sempre són d''ajuda a l''hora d''entregar les criaturetes als braços de Morfeu. Desbocat, tendre i radicalment sincer, Collons, posa''t a dormir! parla de les familiars, i íntimes, amargors que afloren quan intentes que el teu petit angelet se''n vagi al llit. Magnífic, subversiu i divertidíssim, Collons, posa''t a dormir! és un llibre per a pares novells, experimentats... i per a qualsevol que s''ho estigui rumiant. Segurament, no hauries de llegir-lo als teus fills. Opinions: «És físicament impossible que tinguis set altre cop. Com? Pixar ara? És la quarta vegada aquesta nit! No, no sé on collons viu el Pare Barrufet. Un conte? Ni ho somiïs. Estira''t, despertaràs el teu germà. No sé quina fressa fan les sarigues. Yik-yik-yik? No sé on és la teva mare. No, no penso cridar-la ara. Qui guanyaria el combat entre el drac esdentegat i un velociraptor? No ho sé, em sembla que... Són les quatre de la matinada, collons! Vols fer el fotut favor d''adormir-te d''una vegada?» Kiko Amat, escriptor, autor de Mil violines i pare de dos pèl-rojos. «El llibre que cap nen hauria de deixar a l''abast d''un adult. Mansbach és un esgarriacries: saboteja el mite contemporani de la paternitat feliç i el trasllada a la crua i extenuant realitat.» Gabriela Wiener, escriptora, autora de Nueve lunas i mare de la Lena «Un conte per a nens adults! No podia parar de riure.» David Byrne, músic i pare d''una criatura «Per fi algú explica com és de veritat. És divertit, sense embuts, una benedicció del cel.» Cristina García, escriptora i mare d''una criatura «El conte per a nens més sincer de la història. Et mors de riure.» A.J. Jacobs, escriptor, pare de tres criatures «Recull el desafiament superb que representa ser pare en el seu punt més àlgid: el moment d''anar a dormir.» Daniel Sinker, escriptor, pare d''una criatura

This 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 off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate and refreshingly honest, it captures the familiar and unspoken tribulations of putting your child to bed for the night.

¡Duérmete, carajo! es un cuento para dormir para los padres que viven en el mundo real, en el cual un par de gatitos ronroneando y unas líneas simpáticas no son lo suficiente para zumbar a un niño pequeño a dormir felizmente. Profano, cariñoso y franco de manera radical, cuenta la conocida y callada tribulación de acostar a su angelito. Bello, subversivo y para mearse ¡Duérmete, carajo! es un libro para padres experimentados, nuevos e incipientes. (Y probablemente es mejor no leérselo a los pequeños.)