It’s your basic bed-time stalling story:  when Mom calls Alfie to say it’s time for bed, he insists he must find Sharkie first.  The story consists of the dialogue back and forth between Alfie and Mom before she finally insists they’ll have to look for Sharkie tomorrow, but when Alfie finally gets to bed, he finds Sharkie has been there all along. The scenario will definitely be familiar to young children, but it doesn’t really offer much in the way of originality, and I confess, I find the illustrations a bit drab.  All in all, not bad, but not great.