John from Parkville wins the Dora and the Lost City of Gold and a Boots Plush Doll Courtesy of Paramount Home Entertainment.

Come fall, a new Dora doll, which will join the regular “younger” Dora on the shelves, will be sporting long hair and a big-city attitude. Adios, Boots. Hola, Gossip Girl.

The doll, which comes with a USB port and is compatible with online story lines that take Dora and four friends on new adventures involving the environment, social action and more, still has, as ...

Dora the Explorer is getting a makeover. The cutsie cartoon character is ditching her shorts and the neat little backpack for what her creators are calling a “new fashionable look.” Alt… ...

For one, she was a curious, ambitious, bilingual Latina and free of the glitter-and-tiara formula that dominated girls’ animation. Dora was the product of a deliberate push by Nickelodeon to ...

The first poster features Dora looking out at what appears to be the lost city as Boots is perched on her shoulder. Backpack is also in full view, though we don’t actually see eyes on it like in ...