About the same length as a folktale, and with similar characters to a folktale, but with a slightly different story than any of the known European folktales that have already been collected, published, and shared.

There are also weird mixed messages. For example; a gate in the fence to illustrate Dulcinea's father telling her never to enter into the forest...and then the father going right through the gate just 2 pages later.

There is humor, a clever heroine, a helpless parent, and a best-animal-friend, illustrated by simple line drawings filled in with a limited color palette of faded red, pale brown, grey, and black.

The publisher states clearly that their goal is to celebrate "unsameness" and encourage readers to be thoughtful & inquisitive, offering books that provide challenging and funny ways of seeing the world. (...from the backmatter.) In this effort, they don't completely fail, but they don't stand out much, either.