Go the F**k 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 off to dreamland. Honest, profane, and affectionate, Adam Mansbach’s verses and Ricardo Cortés’ illustrations perfectly capture the familiar—and unspoken—tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night, and open up a conversation about parenting in the process.

Here is a sample verse:

The cats nestle close to their kittens now.
The lambs have laid down with the sheep.
You’re cozy and warm in your bed, my dear
Please go the f**k to sleep.

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Tags: bedtime, book, child, Children, dad

Mistakes are good, especially in art. Teach your child to make artistic “mistakes” with this children’s art sketchbook from the Museum of Modern Art. Quotations from artists such as O’Keeffe and Picasso invite deeper reflection on making art while loosely introducing themes on line, color, pattern, and texture. Most of the exercises emphasize free expression (“make a self-portrait using your favorite colors”), while others introduce concepts like perspective.

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Tags: art, artist, book, child, Children, crafts, draw, sketch

Know your boys. Understand them in the various stages of boyhood. Invest in them. Realize that before you know it, they have become young men following in your footsteps.

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Tags: boyhood, fatherhood

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Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook

Ever wonder what green eggs and ham really taste like? They’re yummy. And now everyone can whip up a batch for themselves using this fabulous cookbook. Filled with simple, scrumptious, wacky recipes for such foods as Cat in the Hat Pudding and Moose Juice and Schlopp, this unique cookbook will have the whole family hamming it up in the kitchen. Each recipe is accompanied by the original verse that inspired it, and the pages are laminated to protect against getting splatters of Sneetch Salad, Oobleck, and Solla Sollew Stew.

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Need some cool project ideas for you and your kids? Make is the first magazine devoted entirely to DIY technology projects. It unites, inspires and informs a growing community of resourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements, and garages.

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Tags: DIY Projects, Kid Projects, Make Magazine, Technology Projects

In 1935, DC Comics founder Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson published New Fun No. 1, the first comic book with all-new, original material—at a time when comic books were mere repositories for the castoffs of the newspaper strips. What was initially considered to be disposable media for children was well on its way to becoming the mythology of our time—the 20th century’s answer to Atlas or Zorro. More than 40,000 comic books later, in honor of the publisher’s 75th anniversary, TASCHEN has produced the single most comprehensive book on DC Comics, in an XL edition even Superman might have trouble lifting. More than 2,000 images—covers and interiors, original illustrations, photographs, film stills, and collectibles—are reproduced using the latest technology to bring the story lines, the characters, and their creators to vibrant life as they’ve never been seen before. Telling the tales behind the tomes is 38-year DC veteran Paul Levitz, whose in-depth essays trace the company’s history, from its pulp origins through to the future of digital publishing.

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If you have a hard time relating to kids’ toys these days, or communicating to your child what “Alf” specifically was, then this book is for you. You’ll find everything from He-Man to Cabbage Patch Kids, Trivial Pursuit to Rubik’s Cube, Transformers to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Pac-Man to Mario Bros Donkey Kong, all in a year-by-year format. Thundercats, HO!

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Our kids have so many animal-related toys and books, but when was the last time they actually looked at a real lion or elephant? Now they can, thanks to Andrew Zuckerman. (yes, that picture above is of a REAL LIVE baboon.) In his book Creature, Zuckerman captures animals against nothing but stark white backgrounds, and the images are nothing short of amazing. Our sense is that this book is for dad as much as it is for the kiddos.

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Rules for My Unborn Son is a collection of traditional, humorous, and urbane fatherly advice for boys. From the sartorial (“If you are tempted to wear a cowboy hat, resist”) to the practical (“Keep a copy of your letters. It makes it easier for your biographer”) to sure-fire hangover cures (“There is no better remedy than a dip in the ocean”), the book of rules and accompanying quotations is quite simply an instruction manual for becoming a good man–industrious, thoughtful, charming, and of course, well-dressed.

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