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{{short description|Fantasy book series}}
{{Other uses|Dinotopia (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox book series
| name             = Dinotopia
| title_orig       = 
| books            = See '''[[Dinotopia#Main books|list of books in series]]'''
| image            = Dinotopia LAFT cover.jpg
| image_caption    = ''Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time'' by [[James Gurney]]
| author           = [[James Gurney]], [[Dinotopia#Other books in the series|various]]
| illustrator      = Various
| cover_artist     = Various
| translator       = Various
| country          = United States
| language         = English
| genre            = [[Children's literature|Children's]], [[Fantasy novel]]
| publisher        = 
| pub_date         = 
| english_pub_date = 
| media_type       = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]])
| preceded by      = 
| followed by      = 
}}
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'''''Dinotopia''''' is a series of illustrated fantasy books, created by author and illustrator [[James Gurney]]. It is set in the titular Dinotopia, an isolated island inhabited by shipwrecked [[Human|humans]] and [[Sapience|sapient]] [[dinosaur]]s who have learned to [[Human-dinosaur coexistence|coexist peacefully]] as a single [[Symbiosis|symbiotic]] society. The first book was published in 1992 and has "appeared in 18 languages in more than 30 countries and sold two million copies."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nrm.org/page276 |title=Illustrator Biographies |access-date=14 October 2008 |publisher=Norman Rockwell Museum |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828055708/http://www.nrm.org./page276 |archive-date=28 August 2008}}</ref> ''Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time'' and ''Dinotopia: The World Beneath'' both won [[Hugo Award]]s for best original artwork.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/?page_id=27 |title=The Hugo Awards: 1993 Hugo Awards |date=26 July 2007 |access-date=20 October 2008 |publisher=World Science Fiction Society }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/?page_id=24 |title=The Hugo Awards: 1996 Hugo Awards |date=26 July 2007 |access-date=20 October 2008 |publisher=World Science Fiction Society }}</ref>

Since its original publication, over twenty ''Dinotopia'' books have been published by various authors to expand the series.

A [[Dinotopia (miniseries)|live-action television miniseries]], a short-lived [[Dinotopia (TV series)|live-action TV series]], a 2005 animated film, and several video games have also been released.