Dora the Explorer, Nick Jr.’s superstar cartoon character, is venturing into new territory in “Dora’s Cooking Club,” a just-released video game for the Nintendo DS or DSi. Instead of going on ...

“Dora and the Lost City of Gold” is a kids film that is so hyperaware that it’s a kids film that it ends up feeling more sophisticated than the vast majority of action movies marketed to the ...

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 ...

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KIDS' cartoon favourite Dora the Explorer is getting a trendy makeover - to the fury of child experts and parents. A more grown-up version of the wholesome young adventurer will be thinner and have ...

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NEW YORK (CBS) Like parents don't have enough to worry about. Now a new study says they need to be on the lookout for cartoon characters pushing their kids to eat junk foods. "We found that when kids ...