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Knots on a Counting Rope

Read by: Bonnie Bartlett & William Daniels
  • Written by: Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault
  • Illustrated by: Ted Rand
  • Published by: Square Fish
  • 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.