Following on the bad-language book Go The F*ck To Sleep (which sold more than 1.5 million copies and which debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list), author Adam Mansbach has a new book, You Have To F-cking Eat (published by Akashic Books).

This eagerly awaited sequel deals with that other big issue after sleep – eating, and getting your kids to eat healthily.

Mansbach said: “There’s been plenty of enthusiasm for a sequel over the years (and plenty of suggestions) but I always said I’d only do one if it rang true to me – if I felt like I could imbue it with the same kind of honesty, love, and frustration as the first book. And eating is the other universal source of parental anxiety, a battle of wills just as pitched as sleep can be. From my own experiences and plenty of conversations with other parents, it seemed like a topic folks could use a laugh and a bit of catharsis about.”

I love some some of the the lines from the book: “The sunrise is golden and lovely, / The birds chirp and twitter and tweet, / You woke me and asked for some breakfast, / So why the fuck won’t you eat?”

You Have to F-cking Eat, illustrated by Owen Brozman, will be available in the US and the UK from November 12 – I’ll let you know when it is released here. I cannot wait to read it… the first book had me in stitches.

Via The Guardian