Ted Rand

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 famous narrative poem recreating Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside that the British were coming.

Haiku-like poems describe a variety of animals.

After following her nine toys in a parade through the house, Hattie explains why each of them needs to sleep with her in her bed.

An escaped snake finds many clever places to hide throughout a house, while the boy who brought him home continues to search for him.

Illustrations and simple rhyming text recall life for an African American family on their farm.

An alphabet book in which two children demonstrate all the fun that is to be had by making and hearing every kind of noise as they dash about on the farm.

In the eyes of an imaginative boy, his dog becomes a seal when he is slick with soap, a billy goat when he chews the mail, a croc when he crouches beneath the table stalking a crumb, and other animals.

An offer from a city man to buy the trees on his land awakens in a country fellow a keener awareness of the value of both his trees and his friends at Christmas.

When Jezebel's Papa goes to war, she finds a special place in the woods to do battle with her own fears.