Friday, December 19, 2008

Guess the Foreign Editions

Here are five new foreign editions of Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara. Can you guess which languages they're translated into?

The first person to guess correctly will receive a free bookplate and a signed dinosaur sketch by James Gurney. One guess per person, please. Employees of Dinotopia publishers not eligible.
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ADDENDUM. The answers are: 1. Romanian, 2. French, 3. Bulgarian, 4. Czech, and 5. Hungarian.

Thanks everyone. Vertumno was the winner. As I understand it, Bulgarian and Russian share the Cyrillic alphabet, so a lot of people, including Ruuhkis made a completely reasonable guess right away. Erin McGuire was right, but just a little late.

The publisher of the Romanian, Bulgarian, Czech, and Hungarian editions is Eastone Books, and the publisher of the French edition is Editions Fleurus.

22 comments:

JohnB said...

1. Romanian
2. French
3. Greek
4. Spanish
5. Polish

Antti Ruuhijärvi said...

1. Romanian
2. French
3. Russian
4. Czech
5. Hungarian

Noon said...

1- Roumain
2- Français
3- Russe
4- Portugais
5- Hongrois

tonci said...

tough!

1. romanian
2. french
3. russian
4. czech
5. hungarian

Andrew said...

1. Romanian
2. French
3. Russian
4. Czech
5. Hungarian

Kissy said...

1. Romanian
2. French
3. Russian
4. Slovakian
5. Hungarian

Scott Murphy said...

Romanian
French
Bulgarian
Czech
Norwegian

James Gurney said...

All good guesses. No one has all five right yet.

Daroo said...

1. Romanian
2. French
3. Russian
4. Czechoslovakian
5. Icelandic

Vertumno said...

1. Romanian
2. French
3. Bulgarian
4. Czech
5. Hungarian

Unknown said...

1. Romanian
2. Belgium
3. Bulgaria
4. Czech
5. Hungarian

theresa said...

1. Romanian
2. French
3.Serbian
4.Czech
5.Hungarian

Andrew Olson said...

1.romanian
2.french
3.greek
4.czech
5.hungarian

Jason Juta said...

Romanian
French
Ukranian
Czech
Hungarian

Erin McGuire said...

1.romanian
2.french
3. Bulgarian
4.czech
5.hungarian

Anonymous said...

Hi,

Romanian
French
Slovakian
Czech
Hungarian

Front

James Gurney said...

Congratulazioni, Vertumno! Sei il vincitore! Piacere di email a "jgurneyart@yahoo.com" il tuo indirizzo. Ti spediro il tuo premio.

Super Villain said...

1 dopey
2 sneezy
3 grumpy
4 doc
5 sleepy

ahhh....dang...its already over!

haha, but thats a nice christmas present!

The Holloways said...

1. Romanian
2. French
3. Russian
4. Slovakian
5. Hungarian

James Gurney said...

Thanks everyone for your guesses. Vertumno was the winner. As I understand it, Bulgarian and Russian share the Cyrillic alphabet, so a lot of people, including Ruuhkis made a completely reasonable guess right away. Emcguire was right, but just a little late.

The publisher of the Romanian, Bulgarian, Czech, and Hungarian editions is Eastone Books

and the publisher of the French edition is Editions Fleurus

Raluca said...

he,he...being romanian myself I must say I´m quite surprised(and why not:enchanted:))to see that everybody recognized without any doubts that the first one is romanian edition...when I´ll be back in Bucharest for sure I´ll search for it!Best of wishes!

Calader said...

Finlay in Bulgarian! What an amazing surprise :) I'll be getting it the first chance I get!