This article is about the book. For the episode of the same name, go here.
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Big Sister Dora! is the 13th book in the Dora the Explorer book series.
Description[]
Someone new is going to join Dora's family! It’s someone who sleeps in a cradle, drinks from a bottle, wears diapers, and likes to be rocked to sleep. Can you guess what it might be? That's right! Dora's mamí is having a baby and Dora is eagerly awaiting the new arrival - she just can't wait to be a big sister. But when Dora arrives to see the new baby, there's a big surprise waiting for her - twins! Now Dora has a baby brother and a baby sister.
Trivia[]
- This book was released the same day as the premiere of Star Mountain.
- The book was released a day less than a month before the episode premiered and exactly a month before the VHS/DVD was released.
- There are several notable differences between the book and episode:
- Backpack's segment has been withdrawn from the book.
- Additionally, the scene that follows, the one where Dora gets a call from Papi, has also been withdrawn from the book.
- In the book, Dora, Boots, and Isa only took one path through the Spooky Forest; in the episode, they took two.
- The scenario where Dora and Boots help Tico and his cousins through the Nut Farm has been withdrawn from the book.
- Abuela is wearing her normal outfit in the book, but in the episode, she wears her party dress.
- In the book, Perrito has red fur instead of brown.
- Abuela does not give Dora and Boots their baby buttons, which do not appear until after Dora meets the twins.
- The baby buttons are much larger in the book than they appeared in the actual episode.
- In the book, the twins were already awake when Dora meets them; in the episode, they were asleep.
- In the book, Mami says the babies are tired; in the episode, the babies yawn and Dora says that they are tired.
- Backpack's segment has been withdrawn from the book.