Product Description

Someone new is going to join Dora's family! It's someone who sleeps in a cradle, drinks from a bottle, wears diapers, and likes to be rocked to sleep. Can you guess who it might be?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22134 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 24 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780689878466
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Dora's Mother Is Having A Baby!
"Hola! I'm Dora and this is Boots. Today I have really exciting news. Someone new is going to join my family! It's someone who sleeps in a cradle, drinks from a bottle, wears diapers, and likes to be rocked to sleep. Can you guess who it is?" --from the book

Big Sister Dora! is an adaptation of the teleplay which features Dora antipating the birth of a sibling.

In this fast-paced story, Dora and Boots need to make their way home in time for the arrival of the baby. With the help of their friend Map, Dora and Boots travel through Spooky Forest and Nut Farm in order to get home.

Along the way, Dora meets Isa the iguana (who will teach the baby about flowers, plants and butteflies) and Benny the bull (who'll give piggyback rides to the baby). Nut Farm is a long way off, but Benny offers to take Dora and Boots in his go-cart. However, Dora and Boots must help Benny put on the four tires--and they count to four in Spanish.

Once they make it to Nut Farm, Dora and Boots see Tico and his cousins. She exclaims "Mi mami va tener un bebe!" (my mother is having a baby). Dora then makes her way home, where family members are joyously gathered--and the baby has already arrived!

What Dora doesn't realize is that there's an even bigger surprise waiting than the birth of *one* baby...

This is a great book that celebrates the birth of a sibling into the family. As a story, however, there's a whole lot of information crammed in, including complex sentences in Spanish (rather than several Spanish words scattered throughout).

Athough it has a hurried pace, it's a good story that can help ease a child into the understanding that a new sibling will arrive into the family (should that be the case in *your* family).

My son is enthralled with babies, so he really enjoys Big Sister Dora!.

Not the best for preparing a big sister.
If you are looking for a book that will prepare your little one for the big brother/sister role, this is not it. This book, like most other Dora books focuses more on her journey home to see the babies than it does preparing, etc. It does not do much to explain most things that come along with becoming an older sibling. Keep looking if you want your child to be well informed on the upcoming arrival.

It's ok if you'r child likes Dora
We got this book b/c my older daughter really loved Dora and she herself was getting ready to be a big sister. It has all the normal Dora adventure type stuff, but I was dissappointed that Dora's Mami did not breastfeed. I really would have liked to see that. Although with the bottle on the front cover I guess I should not have expected much.