This book can be used in a fairytale unit with many other “Cinderella” stories to show students how one story with the same concept can be made using many different types of characters, settings, and details. Pamela Duncan Edwards’ book can be used for a variety of different lessons in the classroom. Dinorella’s stepsisters try to convince Duke Dudley that the diamond is theirs, but when Dinorella arrives at the dance, Duke Dudley knows the diamond is hers and he asks her to be his darling, much to the stepsisters’ distress. On her way to the Dinosaur Dance, Dinorella witnesses a dastardly deed, Duke Dudley being kidnapped by a deinonychus! Dinorella wards off the deinonychus by throwing one of her diamonds from her necklace at him, and she saves the day! Duke Dudley doesn’t know who the diamond belongs to, but he vows when he finds her that he will make her his darling. Fairydactyl comes to Dinorella’s rescue and dresses her in the most beautiful dress and the best jewels a dinosaur could ever ask for. Dinorella : A Prehistoric Fairytale by Pamela Duncan Edwards is just like the well-known fairytale “Cinderella,” except for the fact that Dinorella and her stepsisters are dinosaurs! Doris and Dora, Dinorella’s despicable stepsisters, are not very nice to Dinorella they make her do all of the chores, and they even make her feel awful about herself by telling her she’s ugly and too dull to go to the Dinosaur Dance.
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