Ted Rand

A father and son have fun playing rough on the couch, grabbing, tossing, and tickling.

While riding on a train at night, a young boy listens and watches as he passes by many creatures in their wilderness homes.

Lucky Kidd watches her father ride a mean bull at the rodeo and thinks about becoming a bull rider herself.

An escaped snake finds hiding places throughout the house, while the boy who broght him home looks for him.

Ten-year-olds Greta and Lindsay are best friends who share an interest in rescuing and rehabilitating wildlife. But when Greta's unemployed father gets a job in another town, Lindsay is afraid she'll lose Greta's friendship.

The young son of a Chilean farmer writes a note asking for a "faraway friend," and places it in a box of grapes bound for the United States.

Describes the animal and plant life in a desert in the American Southwest and the effects of a short but violent thunderstorm.

A poem about numbers and their characteristics. Features anamorphic, or distorted, drawings which can be restored to normal by viewing from a particular angle or by viewing the image's reflection in the provided Mylar cone.

Games of tag on the deck; swings tied to the masts; a floating farmyard filled with chickens and ducks and even a pig; exotic pets, including a mongoose, a monkey, a kangaroo; studying astronomy and celestial navigation under the stars and geography with firsthand visits all over the world. This was the childhood of the four Madsen children who made their home aboard a four-masted sailing bark that carried cargo in the 1800s. Based on the journal...

Based on a true story, a girl finds a homeless dog in a dump, visits him every day, and eventually saves his life.