A Queens native has been tapped to voice the title character in the popular children's cartoon "Dora the Explorer." Fatima Ptacek, 11, will be heard as Dora when the cartoon premieres its seventh ...

Fun, funny, wholesome and meta-smart, "Dora and the Lost City of Gold" is a savvy adaptation of the long-running children's cartoon "Dora the Explorer." This good-natured family comic adventure is ...

Jeffrey Wahlberg (from left), Madeleine Madden and Isabela Moner (as Dora) in "Dora and the Lost City of Gold." Paramount Pictures / Everett Collection Disney, take note: This is how to do a winning ...

Dora the Explorer is getting her own live-action movie, and our own Lilliana Vazquez got an exclusive tour of the set! She braved the wild Outback in Australia to find out more about “Dora and the ...

March 8, 2009— -- Dora the Explorer is growing up, with a new, mature look that has some parents up in arms. Mattel and Nickelodeon have announced that the educational cartoon character, a ...

KIDS' cartoon favourite Dora the Explorer is getting a trendy makeover - to the fury of child experts and parents.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — “Dora the Explorer” is one of those annoying Nickelodeon TV shows that is supposed to be educational and entertaining and instead usually is just a video babysitter. That’s the TV ...

Media theorist and educator Neil Postman was deeply worried about the value of so-called educational programming. Rely on TV to teach children, Postman argued in his landmark 1985 work Amusing ...

From left, Eva Longoria, Isabela Moner and Michael Peña star in “Dora and the Lost City of Gold,” a live-action adaptation of Nickelodeon’s beloved “Dora the Explorer” cartoon.

NEW YORK — Twenty-five years ago, a little girl with a bob haircut appeared on our TVs, speaking a mix of English and Spanish, with a spunky, can-do spirit. She had an adventure planned, a backpack, a ...