Tyrannosaurus Nathanial is an intelligent dinosaur. The only intelligent dinosaur. But something happens to change that. Something that has been dampening the intelligence of all dinosaurs is suddenly turned off. They start to remember and become curious again. One by one the intelligent dinosaurs find each other. They find the tyrannosaur's house, his water and electricity experiments, and a deep hole he's been digging.
Something is down there. An old city from years ago that they'd all forgotten about.
But one thing keeps getting in the way of their new found connection.
They are all very, very hungry.
Can the herbivores and carnivores get along, find the ancient city, and start a new dinosaur life, or will their constant hunger consume their new civilisation like it did their ancestors?
Dinory Excerpt
It made his head spin when he started thinking about it. To all intents and purposes, he should not exist here like this. He had no idea where these skills had come from and no idea how he was going to pass these skills on to anyone else.
As this thought hit him he suddenly grew slightly despondent.
What was it all for?
If he could just meet another intelligent dinosaur, maybe he'd get an answer.
Suddenly there was a rustle in the undergrowth and a short, sleek, quick moving dinosaur peeked out from behind the fronds of a fern, its yellow eyes glinting in the sinking sun, and its tongue flicking in and out past its sharp teeth.
Tyrannosaurus Nathanial could see the upright feathered body and tail, as well as the sharp foreclaws, and knew it was a velociraptor, the most dangerous of the pack dinosaurs.
But there was something else. A curiousness in its gaze. Something that said that, even though these were the most cunning and dangerous dinosaurs that had ever lived, that there may be something more to this one than just being a killing machine.
"You did this, yes?" the velociraptor asked, pointing to several holes in the ground linked with a trench and rapidly filling with water.
"You speak tyrannosaurus?" asked Nathanial in surprise.
"Almost. Some. Trying," said the velociraptor.
"Amazing!" said Nathanial. "How do you do that, then?"
The velociraptor smiled a toothy smile. "Just like you, after eating, I have other interests. Eating very important. After eating, other important things. I learn languages. Dinosaur languages. I translate."
Nathanial shook his huge head in disbelief, then shock. The tiny, spiny feathers that covered his greenish brown scaly skin stood up as he realised the enormity of the situation.
An intelligent dinosaur. ANOTHER intelligent dinosaur. Just like him!
Maybe there were others!
About the novel
As requested by many kids over the years, this is a dinosaur story with 'no people'. Only dinosaurs!
Some sketches of dinosaurs have been included in the book, drawn by Nathanial E J Hogan age 8.
There are also a few places where children can sketch their own dinosaurs in the book.
This is a great novel to read at bedtime as children can learn about new dinosaurs. Dinosaur names, sizes and movement have been written as accurately as possible, based on current research.
About the series
Secret palaeontologist documents, recently leaked, reveal the suppressed discovery of a long lost city, millions of years old.
These books contain a modern translation of the ancient dinosaur diaries (dinories), recently decoded in an undisclosed location by palaeontologists and linguists, who have been sworn to secrecy by their respective governments.
The various diaries, reports, journals, blogs and other records have been weaved together to reveal a storyline about dinosaur society and culture in the distant past.
Every attempt has been made to accurately represent dinosaur society to modern humans in an easy to understand narrative from the dinosaurs' viewpoint.
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About the Author: Neil Hogan was born in Sydney in the 70s and from the age of 3 had a strong interest in science fiction, time travel, dinosaurs and metaphysics. Lots of boring stuff happened next, including some stuff that didn't happen. Then he launched the Alien Characters series and has been developing the universe of these characters on and off since then. A 100 story series in the style of Mr Men, Thomas the Tank Engine, Ben 10 and Doctor Who. Find out more at AlienCharacters.com He launched Dinosaur Characters, a series of chapter books about intelligent dinosaurs in the cretaceous period for children aged 7-12. Find out more at DinosaurCharacters.com He launched Galactic Missions, a series of chapter books featuring human characters in the Alien Characters universe, for children aged 10-16. Find out more at GalacticMissions.com More coming soon! Neil currently lives in Australia and, to supplement his writing, works casually as a private ESL English tutor, affiliate marketer, website creator, blogger and wine advisor.
