This has always been one of my favorite fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm. I can just picture those sore feet and those tired princesses, exhausted after dancing all night long, night after night. This is a simple version of the story, cleaned up for young readers, of course. There are all sorts of great messages in this story, and I love the fact that it is the cobbler who solves the mystery by following the princesses. I liked how the illustrator places Pip at the edge of the frame, watching the princesses as they move to the enchanted island and then as they dance. Readers see his outline in the shadows with the princesses in all their splendor dancing about the ballroom. The digital illustrations lend a cartoonish aspect to the pictures.