By Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault. Read by Bonnie Bartlett and William Daniels. 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. View the activity guide here: http://www.storylineonline.net/activityguides/storyline_knots.pdf www.sagfoundation.org