Go the F**k to Sleep

Nothing beats a dad-approved bedtime story full of great illustrations and a few F-bombs. That is, unless it's a bedtime story full of great illustrations and a few F-bombs, read aloud by Samuel L. Jackson. Jackson agreed to record a reading of Adam Mansbach's Go the F**k to Sleep because...

By Claire Lawton

June 19, 2011

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Nothing beats a dad-approved bedtime story full of great illustrations and a few F-bombs.

That is, unless it's a bedtime story full of great illustrations and a few F-bombs, read aloud by Samuel L. Jackson.

Jackson agreed to record a reading of Adam Mansbach's Go the F**k to Sleep because he can remember on countless occasions telling his own daughter, as nicely as possible, that it was indeed time to go the fuck to sleep.

Hear Jackson read the book after the jump and grab your own dad a copy at Changing Hands -- it is, after all, his day.

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