We've all had the experience before of trying in vain to go to sleep. When that happens, we try all sorts of tricks to slip off to dreamland. Whether it is counting sheep, drinking warm milk, fluffing the pillow...anything is fair game in the struggle to drop off. In this wonderful bedtime story, the child narrator does try counting sheep. It turns out that sheep are not as peaceful as one would think; "they're a noisy flock of bleat, with no polite, no nice, no neat." After enduring tickled feet, a raided candy stash, even sheep wearing his underpants, our narrator decides that another bedtime ritual might be better. The next night he tries counting snails, but they are not much fun leaving their trails around the room. Perhaps "laundry-diving sheep" are better after all.