SHOULDA THOUGHT OF IT
Jun 4th, 2011 by MPC Press
What stands #9 on the Amazon recent bestseller list and #1 in the “Parenting & Families” category? Is it a book about raising your daughter? Or how to discipline your son? Or god’s way of teaching table manners? Not even close. It is “Go the F… to Sleep”. Really, check it out if you haven’t. Amazing, a children’s picture book that you can’t read to children. And the Amazon look indicates that people are really buying it I guess. When we put together our own recent bestseller, Rhyme, we did think about the challenges of publishing a children’s picture book with plentyof the humor directed toward adults, but the story certainly easy to understand and funny for children. Would our title sell with a potentially split audience? Fortunately, the answer was yes, and we are not disappointed. But, we had no idea that a children’s picture book genre could exist (and thrive) that was purely for adults. With the partially offsetting concern that our parents would not be proud, we are simply jealous and wish the idea were ours.
