DO YOU KNOW
DORA? BY SUEHYLA EL-A ATTAR
Dora, The Explorer LIVE! The Search for the City of Lost Toys comes to The Fabulous Fox Theatre this month. The bilingual, animated little girl springs to life, with Susan Oliveras in the lead role. Encore Atlanta was keen to know more about the pint-sized explorer who has helped so many children learn. So, Oliveras shared these fun facts with us.
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riginally, there was no Dora. When creators Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes, and Eric Weiner decided to create a show that would encourage active problem solving with all sorts of games, their main characters were animals: first a squirrel, then a marten and finally, the most promising of all, a bunny. But the bunny eventually became a 7-year-old Latina girl ... named Dora!
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