Dora the Explorer News

Today the Brighten a Christmas notebook falls open to a story that many families can relate to this year: joblessness and the cascade of difficulties it brings.

Does your child love Dora The Explorer or her animal rescuer cousin, Diego ? The characters of Dora and Diego are fun, animated, educational, and bilingual.

Zippity from LeapFrog's joint venture with Disney is an expandable plug-and-play video gaming system designed for kids ages 3 to 5. It comes with its own mat controller and a console unit that plugs into the TV.

With its new production of "Around the World in 80 Days," Center Stage is launching on an odyssey as daring and fraught with peril as the one undertaken by Jules Verne 's fictitious explorer, Phileas Fogg.

Dora the Explorer Activity Tote, manufactured by Dora the Explorer, is one of the toys that HealthyStuff.org says contains high levels of toxic chemicals.

Wondering what gift to buy for that special youngster in your life? The National Retail Federation has released its lists of the top toys for boys and girls in 2009.

Dora the Explorer and Batman games for Leapster - FREE! Leapfrog.com Leapfrog has put quite a few of their Leapster game system games on sale.

Yes, Virginia -- Beatrice Miller gives voice to the role of 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon , a young girl growing up in late 1800s New York City who always loved Christmas, but when told that Santa Claus doesn't exist, questions her beliefs in one of the most famous letters of all time.

Dora the Explorer is shown in this artwork released to Reuters by Nickelodeon and Mattel.

Christmas celebrates the cozy and familiar, and what could be cozier than gathering up the kids to watch the same animated snowmen and reindeer you enjoyed as a child? Like those scuffed up family ornaments we dig out year after year, some Christmas specials - "Frosty the Snowman," of course, and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and "The Year ...

Greetings and salutations, holiday revelers! Welcome to DVD Verdict's Parade of Turkeys 2009 , where we bring you the dimmest and dullest of DVD and Blu-ray releases for this past year.

With the holidays quickly approaching, it's a great time to begin purchasing holiday music.

Times file photo Last year, 21 floats cruised down Montana Avenue during the FirstLight Federal Credit Union Sun Bowl parade, including the Sports Commission Express, which won the Judge's Award.

Sure, the economy is on unstable ground, and you will have to be judicious in your gift giving.

And now it's time for another installment of "TV Commercials I Despise" in which I identify commercials and then dutifully despise them Dora Links This new line of toys is based on "Dora the Explorer," the long-running show for preschoolers about an adventurous kindergartner living in some remote South American village and saving animals in peril.

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CHILDRENa S TV favourite Dora the Explorer will be turning on the Christmas lights at a shopping centre this year.

T urning 40 stinks. "Sesame Street" may be in the mood to celebrate its milestone, but take it from a woman who hit the Number of the Day last week: The midlife crisis is all it's cracked up to be.

Our little girl is all grown up. Yes, it's true. In case you have been living under a rock, or have simply been too busy to keep up with your favorite Spanish-speaking toddler, you need to be informed on the latest on-goings at Nick, Jr.

Is my child getting enough vitamin D to stay healthy this winter? That was my question in the early morning gloom as I scanned the label of our Dora the Explorer multivitamins.