In a gentle telling of a gentle story, Meindert Dejong captures the life of Davie, a little boy with a man's mission -- to find his missing pet rabbit. The beauty is not only in the story, but the telling of it, slowly, deliberately, with a keen sense of how overwhelming the world is to a small child. The ink drawings bring little Davie and his impish little rabbit so close to you, they might well be snuggled next to you. This is one of my favorite books of all time, and I was delighted to find a hardcopy version in amazon.com. It will be a keepsake to hand down to my kids.