Is it the fun adventure Dora takes each episode? Her friendly personality? What draws your child to Dora the Explorer?
They have just recently gotten into Diego and my daughter has been amazing me with the random animal facts that she's picked up from Go, Diego, Go. We were at a natural history museum recently and were going through the animal hall. I drew their attention to a crocodile that I had spotted when my daughter sighed and gave me That Look (the one that I didn't expect her to start using before her teenage years) and said, 'That's not a crocodile, that's a caiman.' And she was right.
Her Christmas list this year had nothing on it but Dora stickers and a Diego DVD. She wasn't disappointed!
Mine don't like Dora . I have boys but I'm not sure if that's the only reason they don't show interest in her.
When given options of what is on tv, they never choose Dora - rather they go for things more fantasy oriented.
In fact, before Christmas it became a joke that if they weren't good, Santa wouldn't bring them "boy" toys, he'd bring them Dora underwear.