This installment in the new Once Before Time series revisits "Sleeping Beauty," with all the characters played by dinosaurs.This pleasant but hardly essential adaptation is loose at best; the dinosaurs are cute and expressive. The wishes bestowed by "fairy friends" upon the protagonist princess, Bronty, are threefold: a long neck, a long tail, and a long life. The final wish comes from a selfish, evil-looking fairy named Rhonda. Rhonda wishes for Bronty to prick her tail on a thorn and fall into a deep sleep, allowing Rhonda to become queen in her stead. The story's simple declarative statements are easy for little listeners to grasp, though lacking in fairy-tale magic. "Bronty grew up. She had a long neck. She had a long tail. She would be queen soon! / One day Bronty went for a walk. She met a new friend. He did not have a long neck. He did not have a long tail. He did have a lunch basket." Bronty's friend, the prince next door, makes a spicy, hiccup-inducing five-bean chili; happily, the chili has no other magical properties. There is a friendship but no love theme; chili and hiccups wake Bronty, not a kiss, medicinal, consensual, or otherwise. Pterapunzel publishes simultaneously; it's remarkable only for the fact that Pterapunzel saves herself after the witch rashly cuts off her braid and throws it out the window to forestall further visits from the friendly prince.Absent the romance and magic, fun but slight. (Board book. 1-5)