Rexerella: A Jurassic Classic Pop-Up

Keith Faulkner. Little Simon, $9.99 (16pp) ISBN 978-0-689-85355-5

Rexerella: A Jurassic Classic Pop-Up by Keith Faulkner, illus. by Graham Kennedy, with paper engineering by Jonathan Lambert, gives Cinderella a prehistoric makeover: the titular T-Rex attends Prince Charmosaurus's ball-and eventually the two are married-while ugly stepsisters Stegasonia and Iguanadoris stew. Larger-than-life creatures pop up from every page.

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