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Dora's Christmas Parade - Leslie Valdes

Description: ISBN 0689858434 / Author: Leslie Valdes / Genre: Junior Books

Newest Review: ... and is closer to the 'really bad' end of spectrum. There is nothing fundamentally wrong nor particularly interesting, ... more

... enriching or enlightening about the story. Dora and her friend Boots are celebrating Christmas with the family. But Dora's grandmother is not feeling well so she is stayed at her home. Dora wants to see her and they decide to use their new instruments for a musical parade to Granny's house. The problem with this book is the disastrous mixture of English and Spanish that it uses. The English text is constantly interspersed with Spanish words, and although some of them might be justified (use of Abuela for Grandma for ex...more

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Dora's Christmas Parade - Leslie Valdes: Misguided Mixture (446 words)
by MagdaDH - written on 25.10.06 (Very useful, 79 readings)
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Dora the Explorer has been, I suspect, designed as a way of either familiarising English-speaking children with a smattering of Spanish or (and?) brining the Latin (Mexican?) community closer to the lives of English speaking little children in the US. There is a cartoon (I have never watched it so cannot judge); computer games (my daughter acquired one somehow, and used to really like it) and also book spin-offs. Books made of films, cartoons, TV shows or computer games are invariably poor, ranging from really bad to barely average. This one is no exception and is closer to the 'really bad' end of spectrum. There is nothing ...

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