Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present, written by Charlotte Zolotow and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, is a 1962 picture book published by HarperCollins.

The story, written by Zolotow, is told in past tense from the third-person point of view.

An unnamed little girl meets a rabbit and asks for his help in finding her mother a birthday present.

On their journey, the little girl tells Mr. Rabbit that her mother likes "red, green, yellow and blue".

Mr. Rabbit and the little girl fill a little brown basket with blue, yellow, green, and red fruits.