Monday, December 15, 2014

LIGATURE - Picture Books for Adults Only

"Profane picture books make fun out of a parent’s pains" PBS NewsHour 12/10/2014

Excerpt

JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour):  Finally tonight, a hit bedtime book series not meant for children.

Jeffrey Brown has the story.

And a note in advance:   It contains profane language we have bleeped out.

JEFFREY BROWN (NewsHour):  It begins so tender and sweet.

BRYAN CRANSTON, Actor:  The bunnies are munching on carrots.  The lambs nibble grasses and bleat.  I know you’re too hungry to reason with, but you have to (EXPLETIVE) eat.

JEFFREY BROWN:  But it ends with a word we can’t use on the air.

BRYAN CRANSTON:  Oh, now you’re hungry.

JEFFREY BROWN:  It’s the voice of actor Bryan Cranston, he of “Breaking Bad” fame, reading the words of frustrated father Adam Mansbach.

ADAM MANSBACH, Author:  The sunrise is golden and lovely.  The birds chirp and twitter and tweet.  You woke me and asked for some breakfast.  So why the (EXPLETIVE) won’t you eat?

JEFFREY BROWN:  Mansbach was known as the author of several critically acclaimed novels, until a little ditty he published in 2012 titled “Go the ‘Blank’ to Sleep” became a surprise huge bestseller.

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