Meet Diego!

Dora the Explorer #7

by Leslie Valdes, Susan Hall (Illustrator)

Meet Diego, Dora's cool cousin! Diego can talk to animals, and he rescues them when they're in danger. But when Baby Jaguar cries for help, can Diego get to him before he plunges into the waterfall? Find out in this exciting adventure!

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Adventure, Spanish Literature

24 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2003

Reviews

[Holly Letson · Rating 2 out of 5]

I felt like this really focused to little on what the title states, which is actually meeting Diego. We are immediately thrown into an animal-rescue mission without really learning anything about Diego himself. Plus, Diego doesn't really do anything special. He relies on the animals to do everything, all along the way. Very UNimpressive.

[Briana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Story seems to skip around a bit, making it a little confusing, and you might have to explain it to young readers, but overall it's fun and has some interactive components. It's more about animals than "meeting Diego," but that's not a big deal to me.

[Leo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Absolutely simped for Diego when I was 3, what a mad lad he was

[Ana Cruz · Rating 5 out of 5]

ii love thiis book!!!

[Rolf · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cut and pasted from an episode of the show.

[Danielle · Rating 3 out of 5]

I feel like this was based off of a specific episode, but can't really remember. Either way, very cute to see Dora and Diego save the jaguar.

[Chinnakaruppan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked the way Dora and Diego's adventure to save the needy animals

[Rommel Sison · Rating 2 out of 5]

6-year-old daughter: 5 stars
4-year-old daughter: 5 stars

[☼Bookish in Virginia☼ · Rating 2 out of 5]

Time Machine... back in time
Book is colorful, but lacks read-aloud-ability, July 15, 2004

We love Dora, but these Simon Spotlight\Nick Jr. books lack read-aloud-ability.

Since my daughter and son are 4 and 2-years respectively, they love Dora and Boots, and I have bought several of these little books but always with pretty much the same experience: I have to invent parts of the storyline and/or ignore some of it. For example, in this book the crew comes upon a ladder with no rungs. Like in the television version the rungs are hidden in the forest and need to be found and counted. No problem. However rather than showing Diego, Dora and Boots climbing the ladder after their successfully reconstructing it, we are shown two pages of them sliding down a zip cord. For young kids this is a discontinuity. They need to see them climb the completed ladder. It is a stupid bit of editing in my humble opinion.

There are other examples of similar unreadability and my advice is to get these at the library, or if you must own, we really like Little Star.

[Dolly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the story where Diego, Dora's cousin is first introduced. Of course, it spawned a separate television show, probably to entertain boys as much as Dora entertains young girls. This story follows the Dora formula, but is more action-packed and a precursor for the later Diego stories.

Our girls love their Dora the Explorer books.

[Rosa Cline · Rating 3 out of 5]

My 2 year old granddaughter and I enjoyed this book. Not only did it introduce a few different animals but in a very easy teaching way the author taught about a dolphin being gentle enough to allow it to swim with you, a polar bear doesn't live in the hot dessert etc. Very nicely done.

[Juancarlos Martinez]

dora meets diego and they explore together

[Mannar · Rating 5 out of 5]

DORA MEETS DIEGO AND HE CAN TALK TO ANIMALS. AND HE IS DORA'S COUSIN.