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What sets this version of Cinderella apart is not the text but the illustrations. Dogs of all varieties dressed in elegant eighteenth-century garb dance a stately minuet when Cinderella arrives at the ball. Although the dog motif is carried through in the amusing architectural details and decorations on Cinderella's gown, this book lacks the humor and originality of Goode's previous The Dinosaur's New Clothes.