Recommended to anyone who enjoyed the first Dinotopia book. Dinosaur and fantasy-lovers alike will enjoy poring over the paintings and diagrams here, deriving hours of pleasure imagining themselves exploring the vistas opening before them, or riding the various prehistoric creatures and/or vehicles. Leaving that issue aside, I found the story here engaging, and the artwork - the real star of the show! - absolutely gorgeous. Their paths crossed, and Will just seemed to disappear.

It almost felt as if the story-line involving Will disappeared, once Arthur reemerged into the world above. I enjoyed following both Arthur and Will's stories, although I do feel that author/artist Gurney stumbled a bit, in bringing his two narrative strands together. Here his narrative joins up with that of his son Will, a Skybax rider who has been accompanying a convoy through the territory of the deadly Tyrannosaurus Rex.Īlthough not really the equal of the first - it lacked that wonderful feeling of discovering a new and wholly magical world - this second volume devoted to the Denisons and their adventures in Dinotopia was still quite entertaining. His voyage of discovery reveals the truth about the ancient Dinotopian civilization of Poseidos - the inspiration for the legend of Atlantis - and sees him reemerging into the world above in the dangerous Rainy Basin. In this second installment of the saga, which sparked a series of fantasy novels for young readers, as well as two television programs, Arthur Denison heads back to the cavernous world underneath the island of Dinotopia, taking Bix the Protoceratops with him. Picking up almost where Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time left off, Dinotopia: The World Beneath is the second over-sized illustrated novel about a lost island where dinosaurs survive and live in peace with those humans who have washed up on their shores.

Dinotopia the world beneath