• Written by: Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault
• Illustrated by: Ted Rand
• Published by: Square Fish Books, an imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
• Read by: Bonnie Bartlett & William Daniels
• Suggested grade level: 3rd - 4th
• Run time: 11 minutes

The counting rope is a metaphor for the passage of time and for a boy's emerging confidence facing his greatest challenges: blindness and the approaching death of his beloved grandfather.