I received a free ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

A fun retelling of Cinderella but with dinosaurs. Super cute and fun story.

Adorable book with great illustrations that I believe all kids would love! It’s so much fun and has great personality that shines through. My preschool kids just loved it.

I'm back with another exciting Cinderella retelling, this time one for children who love both fairytales and dinosaurs! There was no question that I'd be picking up <em>Cinderella Rex</em> by Christy Webster and illustrated by Holly Hatam the moment I saw it. I pretty much try to read every Cinderella retelling I can get my hands on at this point. And I'm happy to report that <em>Cinderella Rex</em> was in no way a disappointment!

Featuring a young dinosaur living with her stepfamily who loves nothing more than to dance every chance she gets, <em>Cinderella Rex</em> pulls you right in. It follows all the typical Cinderella milestones, from her doing all the chores to her family refusing to allow her to go to the ball. In pops her Fairy-Triceratops to save the day and off she goes to dance the night away.

The prince becomes entranced by the amazing dancing skills of our very own Cinderella Rex, curfew demands she must leave, and we even get a nod to the big head / little arms joke that often comes about with tyrannosaurus rexes. And honestly? I loved every moment of this story. The illustrations were an adorable bonus, with bright colors and cute characters to keep any kid engaged.

While I'm not the biggest dinosaur lover, it did warm my heart to know that there is a story out there with a Cinderella dinosaur for all boys and girls to fall in love with.

<em>I was provided a free copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.</em>

This story ticks all the boxes for our family. Dinosaurs, especially T-Rex are all over my grandchildren's house, from wall hangings, to bedding and quilts. This retelling of Cinderella using dinosaurs gave it just the twist we loved. Cinderella Rex is not looking to get married, but she just wants to dance. The fairy triceratops makes her wish come true and when she gets to the ball, everyone, including the prince, wants to know who the amazing dancer is. Of course midnight strikes and when she loses a shoe running off, she can't pick it up because of her tiny arms (we loved that part). I enjoyed that there was no romance, prince smitten by a beautiful princess, but just a fun story with the magical elements of the original fairytale. We all enjoyed this story. The illustrations were adorable, and even though this was a short board book with simple text, it appealed to both the three year old and the six year old.

Cinderella Rex was a lot of fun to read. This book put a ton of new spins on this classic tale, and that was what made it great. You will take a journey into the past and see this tale told in a whole new way. This is a book I think kids will love to read.

My 5 year old daughter liked the dinosaur twist on Cinderella. This is a silly book, perfect for this age. I am looking forward to the next book in the series.

Aww! A cute, easy to read dino-themed fairy tale. The illustrations are great and the text is appropriate for a 1-2nd grader to read on his/her own.

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"Cinderella Rex ran down the steps. Her shoe fell off! She tried to pick it up, but her arms could not reach it."

Major kudos for cracking me up with this line! You see, Cinderella in this book is a T-Rex, and we all know that T-Rex arms are mostly worthless! :)

This was a super cute Cinderella-esque tale using dinosaurs. I chose this title to read because my kids are all about the dinos! And I wasn't let down, and neither were they!

What a super cute retelling of Cinderella using dinosaurs. My 2 year old granddaughter loved it and wants it read to her over and over.

Cinderella Rex is a cute spin on the popular fairy tale, Cinderella. Cinderella Rex is about a t-rex who loves to dance but can't because she has to take care of her stomp mother and stomp sisters. This book was so cute and well written!

The boys I read this to loved it! They really enjoyed looking at the dinosaurs. We will definitely be buying a hard copy of this book!

Once we took a close look at the cover, we all gave out a big chuckle. Good twist on the Cinderella story with stomp mother and fairy triceratops.
All the details and whimsical drawings add to the fun.

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

SO CUTE. I love dinosaurs and I'm always a fan of a princess story, and this is adorable. I loved that the glass slipper had toes for the T-Rex, and I also liked that despite the presence of the prince, the main goal was dancing. It was very cute. I also loved the fact that what stopped Cinderella Rex from picking up her glass slipper was her short arms. Adorable story, would read again.

I love this new twist on Cinderella. I think that by making the characters as dinosaurs, Christy Webster has broken through the gender stereotypes that come along with both princess stories and dinosaurs. I also appreciate that marriage and happily ever after is not a part of this story's ending. It is so important to teach kids about being kind to one another, to be friends with people who are different than you (gender, type of dinosaur, etc.), and to be true to yourself. Cinderella Rex does that as the heroine of the story doesn't run off to marry the prince, she teaches him how to do her favorite thing, which is to dance. I think that changing the ending so that Cinderella and the prince are friends with a shared hobby that they both enjoy is a beautiful new ending than to keep pushing the ideas of marriage on to children from such young ages.

Approved by my fairy tale loving 3 year old.

A pretty simple retelling of Cinderella, except that they are all dinosaurs. They're still personified, living in houses and wearing human type clothes. There's no romance here, the Prince is excited to find the great dancer he saw so they will give him lessons, so kids in the kissing is yucky phase will still enjoy.

The art style is cute, with friendly looking dinos and texture given with scratch out rather than black lineart. Cinderella Rex was actually my least favorite design of the characters, it is telling that almost everyone else is an herbivore, maybe the illustrator knows where her strengths lie. I loved the clothing and dresses (more the feather and leaf shapes that make them up than the Prince's fleur-de-lis sportcoat which felt a little out of place in the art style) and it takes skill to get clothes on creatures with tails, some of whom are on four legs. There was one picture, of Cinderella Rex running down the stairs in her long skirt and her tail was fully visible from behind her, which doesn't make much sense. Somewhere in the design or editing process someone should have questioned that. It's the sort of thing nitpicky kids will notice and complain about too, trust me.

The changes to the text are mostly single words, they aren't stepsisters, they're STOMPsisters etc. There are some cute details like Cinderella not being able to pick up her shoe because her little arms can't reach (I am kind of betting that that detail was the first thing created for this story and the reason she was designed as a T-rex). I am interested in seeing where the series goes with other folklore, and I hope there are more little details and twists like that one.

Cinderella Rex by author Christy Webster is an adorable and fresh children’s book worth the read (every time!) the plot and characters are written beautifully for the young readers, it did not disappoint!

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for an arc copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Cinderella Rex is an adorable re-telling of Cinderella, starring dinosaurs. Cinderella is a T-Rex who loves to dance, but must serve her selfish stompmother and stompsisters. As the story goes, when Cinderella Rex manages to go to the ball (with the help of her fairy Triceratops and a squash-coach), she captivates the prince and all ends happily after ever. The illustrations are charming and absolutely perfect for the story. This is a fantastic way to introduce the classic fairytale to young children.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.

Lovely take on Cinderella - the ending is particularly pleasing. The illustrations are very cute. The language is well-matched for the illustrations and the story. I worry that if I had to read this every night for a month it would drive me mad but isn't that the way with all children's books? Overall good.

Hilarious "fractured" fairy tale spin-off on Cinderella that kids will absolutely adore! The art is especially fun and the dialogue will make this a super story to read out loud or as a fun bedtime story. Children are enamored with dinosaurs and seeing them in a fairy-tale setting is particularly unique. Great book! I highly recommend it.

This is cute and I love that it is a dinosaur book that is geared more towards girls. The pictures are adorable. I was hoping for a bit of a variation of the traditional Cinderella story but overall it is a cute story book.

I need more of these books! I love fairy tales. I love dinosaurs. I love this story. It is cute, and felt that the story was still true to the lesson while being more empowering and fun for kids and not so much a “prince saves the princess” cliche.

I would love stories like this for my kids and my niece and nephew. It is relevant, bold and colourful as well as great for any child.