Dora's Enchanted Forest Review

As a langauge teacher, I often go on about the benefits of teaching languages to children as early as possible.  Anything that helps this is great and Dora the Explorer is a great program for doing just that.  By watching this program, it is amazing how quickly little ones subconsciously pick up Spanish words and phrases whilst enjoying the interactive adventures of Dora and her friends.

So when I had the chance to review the newest set of adventures, I was happy to do so, especially as my little girl already loves Dora the Explorer.

So, get ready for elves, fairies and unicorns as Dora ventures into the Enchanted Forest for 'Dora's Enchanted Forest Adventures.  There are three parts to this new adventure with an hour long finale:

Part 1 - Tale of the Unicorn King - Unicornio has been chosen to be King of the Enchanted Forest, but he's unsure that he deserves the title, so Dora and friends take him on a journey to help him realise he's worthy to be king!

Part 2 - The Secret of Atlantis - Dora, Boots and Unicornio leave the Enchanted Forest to join Diego in a quest to raise the lost continent of Atlantis.  But to do that they'll need to end an ancient feud between the unicorns and the dragons.

Part 3 - Dora Saves King Unicornio - Dora and Boots return to the Enchanted Forest to find Owl has taken over as king and made new rules that ban scarecrows, elves and fairies from the forest.  But the Enchanted Forest is for everyone!  Dora, Boots and their forest friends need your help to restore Unicornio as king and make things fair again!

This Dora trilogy has already been shown on Nick Jr (Sky 615, Virgin 715 and Talk Talk 318) but you can catch it again:

Saturday 19th November at 1pm
Sunday 20th November at 9am and 5pm

Friday 25th November at 4pm
Sunday 27th November at 12pm

My daughter and I sat and watched this together and it is lovely.  It is engaging and interactive with the right mix of music and dialogue.  She was enthralled, it is a lovely cartoon with lovely colours and characters.  We really enjoyed it, so if you have a little Dora fan in your house, make sure that you don't miss it.