Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Ballet Adventures DVD Review and Giveaway

DORA THE EXPLORER: DORA’S BALLET ADVENTURES

Available on DVD exclusively at Target on February 20, 2011

Dora is getting ready for her big dance show in Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Ballet Adventures, a compilation containing four of Dora’s dancing episodes. Help Dora as she moves and grooves to her way to Dance School to find her ballet slippers before her recital begins. Later, Dora and Boots lead a musical parade, have a fun-filled fiesta and celebrate Boots’ birthday! Created by Nickelodeon Home Entertainment and distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Ballet Adventures will be released on DVD exclusively at Target on Tuesday, February 20, 2011 for the suggested retail price of $16.99.

Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Ballet Adventures Episode Synopses:
Dora’s Ballet Adventure
Dora’s dance class is getting ready for a special dance recital and her whole family’s there to watch her perform. They just need to wait for the Delivery Duck to deliver their ballet slippers. But the Delivery Duck brings scuba flippers instead of ballet slippers! Dora and Boots must get the slippers before the recital begins.

Dora, La Músico
C’mon and join the musical parade! Dora and Boots are leading a parranda over the Piano Bridge and through the Singing Gate to free the instruments that were locked up by the evil Señor Shhh!

The Super Silly Fiesta
Dora and Boots are invited to the Big Red Chicken’s Super Silly Fiesta where there will be silly snacks, silly games, silly hats and even silly dancing. But, the Big Red Chicken lost his party cake! Dora and Boots set off to save the fiesta. After searching forever, they find the cake in the silliest place Big Red Chicken could have left it – on his head!

Surprise
It’s Boots’ birthday! Dora tells him that all of his friends are waiting at her house to give Boots a big party. To reach Dora’s house, they’ll have to climb a long flight of Stairs and cross the Troll Bridge.

Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Ballet Adventures Fast Facts:
DVD SRP: $16.99
DVD Running Time: Approximately 95 Minutes

Dora the Explorer, created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes and Eric Weiner, is a play-along, animated adventure series starring Dora (Caitlin Sanchez). Dora is a seven-year-old Latina heroine whose adventures take place in an imaginative, tropical world filled with jungles, beaches and rainforests. She explores her world just as preschoolers do everyday, and the show is designed to actively engage its audience in an interactive quest using a variety of learning techniques.

Our Thoughts:

Dora, Dora, Dora the Explorer!  These lyrics stick in my head like glue.  Dora is one of Adeline’s favorite shows.  How could a child not like the catchy theme song?  Adeline was very excited that we got the chance to review the brand new Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Ballet Adventures a compilation containing four of Dora’s dancing episodes.  Ballet and Dora? Even better.  Adeline loves dressing up as a ballerina! We popped in the DVD once we got  Adeline’s tutu and slippers on. She  watched as Dora and Boots danced and sang their way through 4 brand new adventures.  As in every episode of Dora audience participation is encouraged throughout each episode and Adeline happily helps out!  Adeline’s favorite of the four was the ballet adventure episode.  She thought it was pretty funny that the truck delivered scuba flippers instead of ballet slippers!  The horror!  She loved helping Boots and Dora figure out how to get the slippers before the start of Dora’s recital.  Spoiler Alert: Dora finds her ballet slippers which leads to yet another catchy song …”We did it, We did it!” I love Dora for the reason that it requires participation and gets kids thinking. Adeline even gets exposure to another language. I love that!

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