You Have to F*****g Eat

I got this as a present for my mom (as she's a mother of four, the youngest now being five) she's well experienced in the area of parenting. Growing up it was difficult for my mother to get me to sit still long enough to eat something .... and it's the same with my younger brother. It's a great book to chuckle at the frustrations of particular quirks children endure. I also bought Go the **** to sleep for my dad by this same author, whom always has difficulty getting the busy little boy to sleep at night.

I would recommend both books to those with this particular sense of humor.

This book is just so funny and if u have a picky eater u will get a good laugh from these
I wrote a note to my daughter in the cover and packed it away with her baby book and clothes . I figured she might get a laugh when hopefully she has outgrown this eating phase!!!

When I read Adam Mansbach's "Go the F**k to Sleep," I laughed my posterior off. Well, it must have reattached itself because I laughed it off again while reading "You Have to F***ing Eat." I suspect you will too.

So funny! Just as good as the first. I was given Go the F**k to Sleep as a gift and couldn't stop laughing.. So I had to get this one when I heard it was coming out. So glad I did, it's hilarious. If you are a parent or work with kids, like I do, you'll crack up as you read and then want to share it with everyone you know.

A little more risqué, but if you have an open mind it can be very entertaining. I purchased it for my daughter and son-in-law who have two toddlers 2 1/2 and 11 months. They really appreciated the book and had a good laugh. We are not a family that throws around the F-Bombs, but Mansbach certainly knows children and gave us a good laugh.

Hilarious book that every parent can relate to. I wouldn't suggest reading this to your child unless you censor it or go the hell with it and accept that you will hang out with your child's principal more often than you wish. Great gift for first time parents especially if you pair it with "Go the **** to sleep".

I was trying to figure out how Adam Mansbach was going to top his hilarious "Go the F**** to Sleep" picture book (sorta a parody of Goodnight Moon), and here it is.

I was a stepdad to three kids for about 5 years, and getting them to sleep paled in comparison to getting them to eat right. The tween girl wanted to eat nothing but mashed potatoes, while the smallest boy was on a diet (not paleo!) of Ramen and cereal. The older boy just into his teens ate anything and everything, but keeping him fed was like feeding a coal fired boiler.

So yeah, even tho I am no longer troubled by this, I found this book hilarious.

Every parent with a "problem eater" (which is pretty much any parent) should read this book and thus realize you're not alone and it could be worse.

Owen Brozman here takes over the illustrators mantle, and does an excellent job.

I await with much trepidation the next book. Dating?

I just want to share something anonymously here--one of my daughters has a sleep disorder. She literally did not sleep till midnight, then woke up ready to play for a while at 3am, then was up for good at 6! Adam Mansbach's first book was a life-saving laugh as we dealt w/ my zombie moans and shuffles.

However, our oldest daughter has struggled all her life with an eating disorder. She literally didn't eat the day she was born. Once she was within spitting distance of puberty, body-image issues compounded that, and our family entered into the living-hell-but-life-saving-treatment of Maudesly Re-Feeding Therapy.

Suddenly, this book exists, and I feel like I have a two-volume set that describes my life as a parent. Stephen Fry was an excellent choice for a narrator.

The difference between an eating disorder and "just crappy childhood eating" is best summed up in the line, "How are you smart? How the hell are you growing?" Because when they stop growing, you have a problem.

I'm happy to report that my daughter has grown by 20% in weight and 10% in height since we started therapy. It was just nice for my husband and I to be able to walk into the kitchen together, and randomly say, "You have to f***ing eat!"

So, thank you Adam Mansbach, for giving us something to smile about while trudging slowly through this.

Things that are relatable are always the most humorous; this book was 100% relatable. My daughter has been a food fussy since birth and for the first thirteen years of her life each and every day had its battles over my efforts to get anything remotely healthy down her throat. Now that she is at the beginning stages of adulthood my husband and I have finally given up 95% of our perceived control over her eating habits and I must admit our daily quality of life has increased exponentially. I’m sure this book will resonate with most parents and they will enjoy seeing their own cursing mental dialog printed next to adorable illustrations.

You Have To F***ing Eat is a sequel to Go The F*** To Sleep by American author and parent, Adam Mansbach. This book is again set out in the style of a children’s picture book, with marvellous illustrations by Owen Brozman, and, once again, this is not a children’s book: profanities abound. But it will certainly appeal to most parents, whether or not their child consents to eat. Mansbach versifies a range of everyday eating situations where children remain stubbornly non-compliant in a manner that will have the reader laughing out loud. It will be interesting to see to what else Mansbach will turn his rhyming talents. Once again, very funny.

This is a review from the Audible audio book version. I absolutely loved the first book "Go the F To Sleep" - the Audible version is hysterical. I immediately bought You Have to F***ing Eat. This one is almost as funny and it does make me laugh out loud, but there's something missing. It's the narrator. He's not as good as Samuel Jackson was in the first book. That's the difference between four and five stars for me anyway.

*I received a free ARC of You Have to F** Eat from Akashic Books via Edelweiss in exchange of an honest and unbiased review*

You Have to F** Eat is a hilarious parody of a children’s book – complete with awesome illustrations, and rhyming text. It is not at all aimed at children, though, but rather it is for tired parents who need a good laugh. When kids more or less refuse to eat – when nothing you put in front of them on a plate makes it to their mouth and tummy, it is the perfect way to relieve some of that stress with a laugh.

The illustrations are reminiscent of children’s books, and I totally love the rhymes, as well as the adequate cursing. When having small children who just don’t want to cooperate is your new normal, the humor in this story just might be the thing that helps save your sanity.

It appears that this onet is also an audiobook, and I’m sure that’s just as hilarious as the written version is. For just a few minutes, you’ll get many laughs with this one, and while you can’t really show it to your kids… yet, it might be something fun to share with them when they’re in their late teens and they wonder how you survived their toddler years.

Don't buy the ebook-it doesn't do the cover and pictures justice. Just buy the print book, and then laugh and laugh and laugh. Hey, I had a kid who wouldn't eat. He wouldn't eat so much that at 2 years old, his doctor said he was anorexic (not the eating disorder/mental disorder, but anorexic, in that the body was 'eating' itself for fuel) and we were so worried about him. We tried EVERYTHING to get this kid to eat. Doctor prescribed pediasure, and told me to mix it with ice cream and liquid vitamins to get nutrition down him. I used to cry and beg him to eat.

So when I am laughing at this book, I come from a place of knowing just how frustrating eating problems with little kids can be. But I have grace in life and laughter as my best medicine, and my 'little' boy is now a thriving 20-year-old young man who would eat me out of house and home if I let him!

This book would have made me laugh until I cried when he was little. AS it is, I giggled little a little kid reading it today!

DISCLAIMER: This is a review of an audiobook.

Adam Mansbach’s poem “You Have to F--king Eat” is a cathartic ode to so many parents who are so damn exhausted trying to make their little ones eat normal meals at normal times. I absolutely loved this grown-up poem because it is hilariously accurate and, even in its explicit version, it somehow still manages to sound cute. And the best part yet: it’s brilliantly narrated by Bryan Cranston, better known to many as Heisenberg from “Breaking Bad.” Honestly, I like this poem even better than Mansbach’s preceding international bestseller “Go the F--k to Sleep” and I prefer Cranston’s narration over Samuel L. Jackson’s (Jackson was the voice for the first book).

VERDICT: 5 out of 5

Building off the success of Go the F to Sleep, the author wrote another story, this time about the struggles trying to get your children to eat. Like Sleep, this book is also a funny, relatable story. Anyone that has ever tried to get a child to eat has gone through days like this. The audiobook version narrated by Bryan Cranston is funny, but not as good as Samuel L Jackson's reading of Sleep, in my opinion.

Cute book for the stressed out parents. Much funnier now that the kids are grown. This is a book of what just about every parent wishes they could have said to their small children at least once in their lives.

Ok, so when this book was offered to me through the Book Depository’s Book Review Programme, I have to admit that I was very curious. I had, of course, heard of the first book by the same author, the one about sleeping, and I jumped on the opportunity to grab a copy of the second book in the series so I could see what the fuss is all about.

This book is designed as a rhyming picture book that features a number of frustrated Dads trying to”encourage” their child to eat the food they have prepared. The children depicted in the book range vary by gender, age, and race – so that’s one positive thing about the book. The illustrations are bright and cheerful and are actually quite child-friendly. It really has the look and feel of an actual picture book. Of course, to be clear… this is 100% an adult book!

So, let’s begin with an analysis of the theme… I, for one, can relate to food battles. While this certainly improves over time, all parents will be able to relate to their children turning their nose at foods that they once loved; or demanding their favorite for dinner after the meal is already on the table; or how there ends up being more food on the floor than their tummies; or kids come back from school with their lunches untouched. Yes, these themes are all too familiar and the author does put a humorous spin on them.

The first issue I have is that so much of the book doesn’t even make sense:

If we were both pandas, I’d know what to feed you,
But seafood is scary, we’re leery of meat.

I could not make sense of this sentence at first and I eventually chalked it up to poor grammar. How about this one?

The sloth and the lemur, the chipmunk and cheetah,
The slow and the sleek and the fleet
Share one thing, my love: they make less of a mess
Than you (insert expletive) do when they eat

How are the first two lines even related? The fleet? What? I don’t get it (other than the author had to find some way to rhyme the second and fourth lines)?

Let’s address the swearing. Yes, this book is for adults – I get it. Yes, I have felt the same level of frustration with my children’s eating issues – I get it. But, let’s face it, the author just did it for the shock value so he could make money off the books. This series of books are a total gimmick. While I may feel some frustration with my kids, the inner dialogue is not even close to what goes on in my head. Actually, the book left me feeling quite disturbed.

To be honest, I don’t know what to physically do with this book. First, I don’t want it in my house because I don’t want me children to stumble upon it. I also don’t want to gift it to anyone because I cannot think of one person who would appreciate this type of humor. I also can’t donate it to my school library nor the public library. What the heck am I supposed to do with this book now?

My Bottom Line:

This book may be worth a chuckle or two and I’m sure parents will be able to relate to many of the scenarios depicted in the book. That being said, the book is largely a gimmick and is not particularly well-written. I recommend that, if you are curious, browse through a copy at your local bookstore. Frankly, I found the book somewhat disturbing.

* This book was provided to me by the Book Depository’s Book Review Program in exchange for my honest review. All opinions expressed are my own. *

The book is short, cute, and pretty F*@king funny! Put in the hands of the parent of a picky eater this book is a fresh breath of air that will bring a smile and a chuckle to a frustrating situation! Although it may appear to be a kids book please be aware that this is NOT a children's picture book and that it is for adults only. This may not be a problem if your little one isn't reading yet, but if they are this book needs to be out of reach because of explicit language. This shouldn't be a shock though once you read the title alone, but just in case you've been warned! ~The Librarian Uncle

This is the sequel to "Go the F**k to Sleep". Like the first one, it's cute and funny. Parents can relate. You definitely shouldn't read it to your kids!

Bryan Cranston has recorded the audiobook for it which is available free until December 12 at http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/Free-You-Have-to-F-king-Eat-Audiobook/B00P9JHMDK?source_code=AUDFPPR1104149BIE. You can listen to a short clip at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2co-ot8PTQ&feature=youtu.be.

Blog review post: http://www.teenaintoronto.com/2014/11/book-you-have-to-fking-eat-2014-adam.html

I bought this for my new nephew. Well, really for my brother and sister-in-law! They thought it was hilarious but said they won't be reading it to him - I told them to use a soothing voice and he'll be fine. ;-)

I got this for my son and daughter in law. They can really relate as they have a 5 year old princess who is a very picky eater. Humor and knowing you are not the only parent with this issue is comforting.

I heard the audiobook version of 'Go the @#$% to Sleep' as narrated by Sam Jackson and thought that was just hilarious. I dunno how much a little kid would appreciate, or more specifically a parent of a small child with an aversion to profanity. Still, fun stuff. And this book carries on par with that. The audiobook is narrated by Mr. Breaking Bad himself, and that's great, but the book itself is a delight to the eyeballs with superb artwork that belies the profanity and the mounting exasperation of a parent that just wants the little one to eat.

I am a mother and I have a mother . I cannot cannot imagine the beauty and miracles of raising children, finding the F word associated with any part of my beautiful memories, no matter how stressed or tired I was!