From Booklist (Starred Review)

Gr. 1-3  Three components-"magic" amaryllis seed, a lost rabbit, and a restless boy-intertwine in this powerful collaboration between two acclaimed author - illustrators. Henkes contributes text stripped gracefully to essentials: "There was no rain, so the seed didn't grow"; the little rabbit exploring, "wandered and wandered until it didn't know where it was"; and the boy could "think of nothing to do, so he did just that." Then "the rain came." The drenching water stranded the rabbit on the wrong side of a storm swollen creek, nourishes the seed that blooms into a bright gift for the boy's mother and inspires the boy to construct a bridge that carries bunny home.  Lobel's vigorous artwork, a riot of color that plays homage to Van Gogh, locates events in a sun toasted, south-of-the-border landscape, and captures the rhythm of Henke's splitting, braided narrative triptychs alternating with cohesive scenes. For a reader slightly older that those targeted by Henkes Kitten's First Full Moon or Lobel's One Lighthouse, One Moon (2000), The perceptibly simple drama in part a reassuring sense that, at least sometimes, the seemingly disparate incidents of life incline toward universally beneficial, "so happy" convergence.