Rand, Ted

Knots on a counting rope by Bill Martin( Book )

32 editions published between 1966 and 2012 in English and held by 3,430 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Boy-Strength-of-Blue-Horses and his grandfather reminisce about the young boy's birth, his first horse, and an excitiing horse race

Barn dance! by Bill Martin( Book )

18 editions published between 1986 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,826 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In an old farmhouse, bathed in the light of the full moon, a young boy hears a voice calling to him. He sneaks out of the house and walks toward the barn, where he can hear the sweet sound of a country fiddler and the rhythmic thumping of dancing feet. But who could be having a barn dance in the middle of the night?

Here are my hands by Bill Martin( Book )

40 editions published between 1985 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 2,730 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The owner of a human body celebrates it by pointing out various parts and mentioning their functions, from "hands for catching and throwing" to the "skin that bundles me in."

The ghost-eye tree by Bill Martin( Book )

17 editions published between 1985 and 2012 in English and held by 2,192 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Walking down a dark lonely road on an errand one night, a brother and sister argue over who is afraid of the dread Ghost-Eye tree

Night tree by Eve Bunting( Book )

14 editions published between 1991 and 2011 in English and Chinese and held by 2,090 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime

The midnight ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow( Book )

15 editions published between 1990 and 1996 in 3 languages and held by 1,937 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Famous poem of the Revolutionary War period

If not for the cat : haiku by Jack Prelutsky( Book )

9 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 1,806 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Haiku-like poems describe a variety of animals

Mailing May by Michael O Tunnell( Book )

10 editions published between 1997 and 2000 in English and held by 1,782 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Nowadays it's no big deal or a girl to travel seventy-five miles. But when Charlotte May Pierstorff wanted to cross seventy-five miles of Idaho mountains to see her grandma in 1914, it was a very big deal indeed. There was no highway except the railroad, and a train ticket would have cost her parents a full day's pay. Here is the true story of how May got to visit her grandma, thanks to her spunk, her father's ingenuity, and the U.S. mail

The memory string by Eve Bunting( Book )

6 editions published between 2000 and 2015 in English and Korean and held by 1,423 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

While still grieving for her mother and unable to accept her stepmother, a girl clings to the memories represented by forty-three buttons on a string

My buddy by Audrey Osofsky( Book )

17 editions published between 1992 and 2015 in English and Japanese and held by 1,330 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A young boy with muscular dystrophy tells how he is teamed up with a dog trained to do things for him that he can't do for himself