Shooting Ladders is a book of advice written to a little girl named Tori.

She was four years old when the author started writing the first topic, and she was eight years old when he finished the last topic. But he didn't write it for the Tori often or even the Tori of now; instead he wrote it for the Tori of the future, as something to help her make the right decisions in her late childhood/early adult years and throughout her life.

The book contains the author's opinions on hundreds of various subjects—some of them practical, many of them philosophical; some serious, some whimsical. On a typical subject, the author tells a story from his own personal experiences and then adds a moral lesson for her to learn from the story.

Although he's not trying to tell her what to think; he is trying to guide her into making the proper decisions in life. The author hopes that she'll carefully weigh all the options and choose the paths that lead her to a good and happy life.