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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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