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Dinotopia is a series of illustrated fantasy books, created by author and illustrator James Gurney.[1]

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  1. 75 relations: Alan Dean Foster, Alyssa Milano, American Broadcasting Company, Antagonist, Artisan Entertainment, Blend word, Brad Strickland, Budapest, Children's literature, Cinefantastique, Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, David Winning, Diary, Diedrich Bader, Dinosaur, Dinotopia (miniseries), Dinotopia (TV series), Dinotopia (video game), Dinotopia: The Sunstone Odyssey, Dinotopia: The Timestone Pirates, Donald F. Glut, Dragonfly, Edgar Rice Burroughs, En plein air, Erik von Detten, Existence, Fantasy literature, George Lucas, George Segal, Georgina Rylance, Giganotosaurus, Halcyon Studios, Hardcover, HarperCollins, Hatchery, Hugo Award, Human, Human–dinosaur coexistence, James Gurney, Jamie Kennedy, John Vornholt, Jonathan Hyde, Kathy Griffin, Lisa Zane, Malcolm McDowell, Maquette, Michael Brandon, Michael Clarke Duncan, Microraptor, Midori Snyder, ... Expand index (25 more) »

  2. Book series introduced in 1992
  3. Children's novels about dinosaurs
  4. Fictional countries
  5. Fictional island countries
  6. Lost world novels
  7. Novels about dinosaurs

Alan Dean Foster

Alan Dean Foster (born November 18, 1946) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction.

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Alyssa Milano

Alyssa Jayne Milano (born December 19, 1972) is an American actress, producer, activist, and former singer.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

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Antagonist

An antagonist is a character in a story who is presented as the main enemy and rival of the protagonist.

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Artisan Entertainment

Artisan Entertainment (formerly known as U.S.A. Home Video, International Video Entertainment (IVE) and LIVE Entertainment) was an American film studio and home video company.

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Blend word

In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words.

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Brad Strickland

William Bradley Strickland (born October 27, 1947) is an American writer known primarily for fantasy and science fiction.

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Budapest

Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children.

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Cinefantastique

Cinefantastique is an American horror, fantasy, and science fiction film magazine.

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Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth approximately 66 million years ago.

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David Winning

David Winning is a Canadian-American film and television director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and occasional actor.

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Diary

A diary is a written or audiovisual memorable record, with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period.

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Diedrich Bader

Karl Diedrich Bader (born December 24, 1966) is an American actor and comedian.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Dinotopia (miniseries)

Dinotopia is a television miniseries produced by Hallmark Entertainment in association with RTL Television Germany.

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Dinotopia (TV series)

Dinotopia is an American television series based on the series of illustrated books of the same name by James Gurney, in which three Americans have crash-landed a plane and found themselves on a remote uncharted island inhabited by people and dinosaurs.

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Dinotopia (video game)

Dinotopia is a 1996 adventure game developed by The Dreamers Guild and published by Turner Interactive for MS-DOS.

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Dinotopia: The Sunstone Odyssey

Dinotopia: The Sunstone Odyssey is a 2003 action-adventure video game released by Vicious Cycle Software for GameCube and Xbox.

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Dinotopia: The Timestone Pirates

Dinotopia: The Timestone Pirates is a platform based video game for Nintendo Game Boy Advance, developed by RFX Interactive and published by TDK Mediactive.

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Donald F. Glut

Donald F. Glut (born February 19, 1944) is an American writer, motion picture film director, and screenwriter.

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Dragonfly

A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American writer, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres.

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En plein air

En plein air (French for 'outdoors'), or plein-air painting, is the act of painting outdoors.

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Erik von Detten

Erik Thomas von Detten (born October 3, 1982) is an American actor and singer.

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Existence

Existence is the state of having being or reality in contrast to nonexistence and nonbeing.

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Fantasy literature

Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world.

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George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and philanthropist.

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George Segal

George Segal Jr. (February 13, 1934 – March 23, 2021) was an American actor.

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Georgina Rylance

Georgina Elizabeth Rylance (born 20 April 1976) is an English actress, best known for Dinotopia.

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Giganotosaurus

Giganotosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Argentina, during the early Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 99.6 to 95 million years ago.

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Halcyon Studios

Halcyon Studios, LLC., formerly known as Sonar Entertainment, RHI Entertainment, Hallmark Entertainment, Qintex Entertainment, HRI Group and Robert Halmi Inc., was an American entertainment company specializing in the production and distribution of scripted television content, part of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment.

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Hardcover

A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as casebound (At p. 247.)) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

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Hatchery

A hatchery is a facility where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions, especially those of fish, poultry or even turtles.

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Hugo Award

The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) and chosen by its members.

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Human

Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.

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Human–dinosaur coexistence

The coexistence of avian dinosaurs (birds) and humans is well established historically and in modern times.

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James Gurney

James Gurney (born June 14, 1958) is an American artist and author known for his illustrated book series Dinotopia, which is presented in the form of a 19th-century explorer's journal from an island utopia cohabited by humans and dinosaurs.

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Jamie Kennedy

James Harvey Kennedy (born May 25, 1970) is an American actor and comedian.

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John Vornholt

John Blair Vornholt (born February 14, 1951) is an American author, screenwriter and journalist.

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Jonathan Hyde

Jonathan Stephen Geoffrey King (born 21 May 1948), known professionally as Jonathan "Nash" Hyde, is an Australian actor.

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Kathy Griffin

Kathleen Mary Griffin (born November 4, 1960) is an American comedian and actress.

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Lisa Zane

Lisa Zane (born April 5, 1961)Skin, Mr.

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Malcolm McDowell

Malcolm McDowell (born Malcolm John Taylor; 13 June 1943) is an English actor.

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Maquette

A maquette is a scale model or rough draft of an unfinished sculpture or work of architecture.

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Michael Brandon

Michael Brandon (born Michael Feldman; April 20, 1945) is an American actor.

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Michael Clarke Duncan

Michael Clarke Duncan (December 10, 1957September 3, 2012) was an American actor.

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Microraptor

Microraptor (Greek, μικρός, mīkros: "small"; Latin, raptor: "one who seizes") is a genus of small, four-winged dromaeosaurid dinosaurs.

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Midori Snyder

Midori Snyder is an American writer of fantasy, mythic fiction, and nonfiction on myth and folklore.

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Naboo

Naboo is a fictional planet in the Star Wars universe.

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National Geographic

National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.

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Ornithopter

An ornithopter (from Greek ornis, ornith- 'bird' and pteron 'wing') is an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings.

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Paperback

A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.

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Peter David

Peter Allen David (born September 23, 1956), often abbreviated PAD, is an American writer of comic books, novels, television, films and video games.

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Postosuchus

Postosuchus, meaning "Crocodile from Post", is an extinct genus of rauisuchid reptiles comprising two species, P. kirkpatricki and P. alisonae, that lived in what is now North America during the Late Triassic.

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Protagonist

A protagonist is the main character of a story.

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Protoceratops

Protoceratops is a genus of small protoceratopsid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous, around 75 to 71 million years ago.

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Pteranodon

Pteranodon; from Ancient Greek πτερόν (pteron 'wing') and ἀνόδων (anodous, anodontos 'toothless') is a genus of pterosaur that included some of the largest known flying reptiles, with P. longiceps having a wingspan of over.

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Pterosaur

Pterosaurs (from Greek pteron and sauros, meaning "wing lizard") are an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order Pterosauria.

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Quetzalcoatlus

Quetzalcoatlus is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian age of North America.

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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Scaphognathus

Scaphognathus was a pterosaur that lived around Germany during the Late Jurassic.

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Scott Ciencin

Malcolm Scott Ciencin (September 1, 1962 – August 5, 2014) was an American author of adult and children's fiction.

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Skybax

The skybax (Quetzalcoatlus skybax) is a fictional creature in the Dinotopia fantasy book series.

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Steam engine

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

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Stenonychosaurus

Stenonychosaurus (meaning "narrow claw lizard") is a genus of troodontid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada, as well as possibly the Two Medicine Formation.

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Symbiosis

Symbiosis (from Greek,, "living with, companionship, camaraderie", from,, "together", and, bíōsis, "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two biological organisms of different species, termed symbionts, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic.

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Tara Strong

Tara Lyn Strong (born February 12, 1973) is a Canadian and American actress.

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Traditional animation

Traditional animation (or classical animation, cel animation, or hand-drawn animation) is an animation technique in which each frame is drawn by hand.

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Triceratops

Triceratops is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the late Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period, about 68 to 66 million years ago in what is now western North America.

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Tyrannosaurus

Tyrannosaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur.

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Wayne Knight

Wayne Elliot Knight (born August 7, 1955) is an American actor.

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Wisdom

Wisdom (sapience, sagacity) is the act of using one's depth and breadth of knowledge and experience to do good by oneself and others.

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Zippo

A Zippo lighter is a reusable metal lighter produced by Zippo Manufacturing Company of Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States.

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See also

Book series introduced in 1992

Children's novels about dinosaurs

Fictional countries

Fictional island countries

Lost world novels

Novels about dinosaurs

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinotopia

Also known as Code of Dinotopia, Dinotopia (island), Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time, Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone.

, Naboo, National Geographic, Ornithopter, Paperback, Peter David, Postosuchus, Protagonist, Protoceratops, Pteranodon, Pterosaur, Quetzalcoatlus, Random House, Scaphognathus, Scott Ciencin, Skybax, Steam engine, Stenonychosaurus, Symbiosis, Tara Strong, Traditional animation, Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus, Wayne Knight, Wisdom, Zippo.