History Literature / HarryAndHisBucketFullOfDinosaurs

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In 2005, the books were adapted by the Canadian television company CCI Entertainment as a 52-episode animated PreschoolShow that originally aired on Creator/{{Teletoon}} in Canada, Creator/Channel5 in the UK, and Creator/CartoonNetwork's ill-fated Tickle U block in the United States. In this AnimatedAdaptation, Harry's bucket functions as a portal to [[AnotherDimension another universe]] called [=DinoWorld=], which Harry can enter by jumping into the bucket. There, his toy dinosaurs become real dinosaurs he goes on various adventures with. Another notable difference between the books and the cartoon is that the dinosaurs are now given proper names rather than simply being referred to by their species. The cartoon ended in 2008, but reruns later popped up on Creator/TreehouseTV in Canada and on Creator/{{Qubo}} in the US.

''Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs'' is a series of children's books written and illustrated by British authors Ian Whybrow and Adrian Reynolds about a 5-year-old boy named Harry, who always carries with him a bucket with six toy dinosaurs that he found in his attic one day. The six dinosaurs are a ''Tyrannosaurus'', a ''Triceratops'', an ''Apatosaurus'', a ''Pteranodon'', a ''Scelidosaurus'', and a ''Stegosaurus''. While Harry regularly interacts and plays with the dinosaurs, they only appear to be toys to everyone else, most prominently Harry's mother and grandmother, his best friends Charley and Jack, and his teenage sister Sam. The first book, simply titled ''Harry and the Bucktful of Dinosaurs'', was published in 1999, and was followed by 13 other books originally published until 2007.

In 2011, Ian Whybrow returned to Harry and his toy dinosaurs with a series of junior chapter books, in which a now school-aged Harry is reunited with his six toy dinosaurs after having stopped playing with them when he started to feel he was too old for them. This time however, Harry also has a set of plastic dinosaur cards on his key ring that he can use to summon additional dinosaurs to help him and his friends. Whybrow even published a 15th entry to the original series in 2012to celebrate the return and rebirth of the series.

''Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs'' is a series of children's books written and drawn by Ian Whybrow and Adrian Reynolds. The series is about a 5-year-old boy named Harry, who has a bucket full of dinosaurs. In the books the dinosaurs talk to Harry but seem to be toys to the other characters. The other main characters are Mum, Nan, Harry's best friend Charley, and Harry's sister Sam.

A British/Canadian TV series was created that originally aired on Creator/CartoonNetwork (on its ill-fated Tickle U block) and many other channels outside America. In here it centers around the same character who owns a bucket with the addition of it teleporting him to [[AnotherDimension another universe]] called [=DinoWorld=] with the toy dinosaurs coming to life.

* HeightAngst: The plot of "You're Too Little!".

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Scorch is a Western Dragon who is an inhabitant of Dino World.
* IWantMyMommy: In "Circus," Taury exclaims "Mummy!" when his clown bicycle starts to fall apart.

* StockDinosaurs: Taury the ''TyrannosaurusRex'', Patsy the ''Apatosaurus'', Steggy the ''Stegosaurus'', Trike the ''Triceratops'', and Pterrance the ''Pterodactylus'' (called pterodactyl in the show). Averted with Sid, who's a ''Scelidosaurus''.

* NotNowKiddo: Harry gets this sometimes especially in "Nobody is Listening To Me!"

A British/Canadian TV series was created that originally aired on Cartoon Network (on its ill-fated Tickle U block) and many other channels outside America. In here it centers around the same character who owns a bucket with the addition of it teleporting him to [[AnotherDimension another universe]] called [=DinoWorld=] with the toy dinosaurs coming to life.

!!The following tropes include:

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. It has managed several times to get away with the word "stupid" (not a swearword per se, but often treated as one in works aimed at preschoolers), not unlike ''WesternAnimation/{{Stanley}}'', a Playhouse Disney channel series where this show also aired in some areas. Same for the books as stated by parents whom some are concerned (sometimes shocked) about its wording or thought that it decreases the story's innocent atmosphere.
** The running gag of Trike getting pooped on by a bird every time he says TheScottishTrope.
** In one episode, [[ItMakesSenseInContext a large truck of]] ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext dino poo]]''... a much more literal example.

* TokenBlackFriend: Charley. [[GenderBlenderName She's a girl in case you've mistaken.]]

* BlackBestFriend: Charley. [[GenderBlenderName She's a girl in case you've mistaken.]]

* InstantAwesomeAddDragons: Scorch is a Western Dragon who is an inhabitant of Dino World.

** In "Goal!" Harry starts giving Charley a hard time because he thinks she's not that good at soccer. He snaps at her after she accidentally hits him with the ball ("I said pass me, not ''at'' me!") acts all unhappy when he has to pick Charley for his team, and then tells his other teammates not to pass the ball to her. Then when Patsy, who's on the other team, tells Harry to play fair and that Charley is trying her best, Harry responds with, "You're just saying that because you're winning." Then the ball comes to life and tells Harry to give Charley a chance, but this just causes Harry to storm off. It takes the ball giving Harry [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicne a taste of his own medicine]] to make him realize that he's been a "real stinker" to Charley and he finally lets her play.

** In "Yo-Ho-Ho," Harry and the dinos are playing "Pirates," but Harry starts to take the game too seriously and starts bossing everyone around and being mean. The dinos then tell Harry he should apologize to them, but Harry refuses beacuse, according to him, ''[[TheUnapologetic Pirates never say they're sorry.]]''

* {{Hypochondria}}: Throughout "Achoo", Steggy falsely believed himself to be ill.

* TakeAThirdOption: In "Who to Choose?", Harry is invited to sleep over at Charlie's but he can only take one of his dinosaurs with him and is torn between who to take. In the end, he comes to a conclusion and decides Charlie can come over to his house instead, so he can still bring all six with no worry.

* ThemeTuneRollCall: "Stegosaurus, Pterodactyl, Tyrannosaurus Rex! Scelidosaurus, Apatosaurus, Triceratops, that’s that! Taury, Patsy, Sid and Trike, Pterence and Steggy, what a sight! It’s Harry and his bucket full of dinosaurs!"

* ShoutOut: In "Super Harry!", Harry and his dinosaurs travel in the [=DinoMobile=] and the H on his superhero uniform flashes across the screen as a scene-changer similar to the bat symbol on ''Series/{{Batman}}''.

* AdaptationNameChange: The dinosaurs in the original book series were simply [[ADogNamedDog referred to as the names of their species (e.g. 'Triceratops', 'Stegosaurus')]]. In the TV adaptation, however, they were all given [[ALizardNamedLiz names loosely based on their species (e.g 'Trike', 'Steggy')]].

* ALizardNamedLiz: The majority of the dinos' names have to do with their species (e.g. Steggy the stegosaurus).