Even though we will devote a third of our lives to sleep, we still know remarkably little about its origins and purpose. Paul Martin's Counting Sheep answers these questions and more in this illuminating work of popular science.
Our fortunes were once founded on sheep, and this book tells a story of wool and money and history, of merchants and farmers and shepherds, of English yeomen and how they got their freedom, and above all, of the soil.
Callie Vee and Travis help animals big and small in this illustrated chapter book series for younger readers. In this second book in the Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet series, Callie takes a hands-on approach to animal doctoring.
Essential reading for naturalists and conservationists. Highly recommended".--Library Journal.
One cold dark night when Sam can’t sleep, her mum suggests that she counts some sheep.
Count down to bedtime with five sleepy little sheep!
Counting sheep is supposed to help you sleep—but a room full of yaks, alpacas, and llamas would keep anyone awake in this counting book with a comical twist. Winner of the Mathical Book Prize!
When three little kittens cannot sleep their mother suggests they count sheep, so all three set out to find some to count.
“Late last night I lay in bed and found I couldn’t sleep. So I scrunched my eyes up tightly and counted woolly sheep.” In this amusing bedtime story, a little girl decides she must count sheep in order to fall asleep.
"Counting Sheep Doesn't Make Me Sleep" is a clever narrative of one young boy's great night's sleep and sweet dreams as he attempts to count sheep.