(Sept.Cinderella Or, The Little Glass Slipper, and Other StoriesĬinderella or the little glass slipper - Fanny's telephone order - The raindrops' new dresses - Sir Gobble - What is it? - John's bright idea - A sad Thanksgiving party - Guy and the bee - A mean boy - A naughty pumpkin's fate - Something about fires - The ice-king's reign - Malmo, the wounded rat - Mama's happy Christmas - Cured of carelessness - A visit from a prince - Stringing cranberries - Christmas in California - A troublesome call - Bertie's corn-popper - Fire! Fire!! Fire!!! - The dolls and the other dolls - Why did Mamma change her mind? - Clara's "funeral" - The chickadee-dee - The children's party - Brave Tomasso - Tommy Frost sees a bear - Myself - Two strange sights - A cat's instincts - Dinah's New Year's present - Night flowers - The first snow-storm - Fred's stolen ride - A Valentine party - The venturesome rat - The bears' feast - Patty-sayings - Babie's curls - The red apples - Bubbles - A horse who wore snow shoes - The angry bobolink - How Hiram spent his shrimp money - The ant's house - The foolish pug - The silhouette party - The snow birds - A kind heart - Towser talks - Just as she pleased - The working tools of insects. This imposing heroine and the much smaller prince, a Jack Russell terrier, make quite the fetching couple as they celebrate their wedding at the tail end of this waggish volume.
Goode works dog motifs into her luminous paintings with amusing frequency (dogs are featured on furniture and wall moldings, as weathervanes and statues and a paw-print pattern decorates Cinderella's wedding dress). Silly images abound: the nasty stepsisters, dressed in their finery with powdered wigs towering above their ears, primp for the ball Cinderella's fairy godmother, a winged dog wearing a pink tutu, hovers above the ground and the tongues of canine revelers hang out literally as the transformed beauty enters the royal ballroom. The author interjects some witty wordplay (Cinderella's stepmother is a ""well-bred"" lady and one of her mangy stepsisters scoffs, ""Everyone would laugh to see such a dirty dog at the ball""), but it is the art that throws youngsters the juicier bone. The protagonist is a young woman living in. As she did in The Dinosaur's New Clothes, Goode gives a familiar fairy tale an unexpected cast, this time introducing a pack of canines with a good-natured spaniel as the title character. Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper, is a folk tale with thousands of variants throughout the world.
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