Dora Saves the Prince/Gallery

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[The episode starts with Dora in the forest.] Hello, Dora!

"Hi, I'm Dora!"

"Do you want to hear a story?"

What do you think?

"I have a new book with a story about a prince, and I can’t wait to read it!"

“If only my friend Boots the Monkey is here, we could ALL read it together!”

Do you see Boots?

She asks him if he wants to read a new book.

Will you check my backpack for the prince book? Say, "Backpack!"

Can you find the book with the Prince on the cover?

The book won't open!

Boots, this is a special book; you have to say "abre" to open it. Can you say "abre"?

The story is called, El Principe y la Bruja (That's Spanish for, "The Prince and the Witch").

Once upon a time, there lived a happy little prince,

Prince Ramon,

who lived in a faraway kingdom.

One day the prince was playing with his ball. He was trying to see how far he could kick the ball.

He kicked the ball once, and it went very far.

He kicked the ball a second time,

and it went very, very far.

He kicked the ball a third time,

and it went so far away

that it landed in...

El Bosque de la Bruja, the Witch's Forest.

The prince was not supposed to go into the witch's forest,

but he wanted to get his ball.

"My ball!"

"¡Mi pelota!"

Uh-oh! The witch!

"You've been a naughty principe to come into my forest."

"Now I will BANISH you…

to the High Tower!"

The witch took the prince to the High Tower.
(This is an outrage! He's INNOCENT!)

The only way to open the tower door was to say the magic word: 'abre'.

The witch whispered the magic word so the Prince couldn't hear.

"Abre."

And the tower door opened.

Inside the tower, the witch and the prince climbed twelve steps

up to a little door at the top of the tower.

"Abre."

And the witch put the prince in the little room.

Now the prince is locked in the tower!
(NO! NOT THE LITTLE ROOM!)

"Help me! ¡Ayudeme!"

Many people from near and far tried to get the prince out of the tower,

but no one knew the magic word to open the tower door.

There was no one to save the prince.

"I'LL save the prince!"

So can Boots! "Me, TOO!"

Will YOU help us save the prince?
GREAT!

(grunts)

"I can't open it!"

She reminds him again: "We have to say the magic word, "abre," to open the book."

Say, "abre"!

Louder! (¡¡ABRE!!)

It opens…

The book is open!

Now we can jump in the book!

WHEEEEEEEE!!!

Boots couldn't believe it! "Are we in the book?"

"Cool!"

"Now we can save the prince!"

"YEAH, YEAH, YEAH!"

"We have to go to the High Tower to save the prince!"

"Let's go,

LET'S GO!!!"

"Wait a minute, Boots! We don't know how to GET to the High Tower!"

"Who do we ask for help

when we don't know which way to go?" Take a guess, Boots!

"The Map!"

"The Map! That's right."

"The Map can tell us how to get to the High Tower!"

I need your help. Will you check the Map to find out how to get to the High Tower?

You have to say, "Map"!

There he is!

Say "Map!" Say "Map!"

Great job! Up he goes now! (SPRIIIIING!) Let's see what he has to say...!

Map's ready for work! "Dora and Boots need to know how to get to the High Tower to save the Prince! Well, I know how to get to the High Tower!"

First you go through the Big Gate.

Then, you go across Crocodile Lake.

And that's how you get to the high tower to save the prince!

"HELP ME! ¡AYUDEME!"

But remember, watch out for the witch!

So you tell Dora: Gate, Lake, High Tower!

How do we get to the High Tower?

Gate, Lake, High Tower! First, we go through the Big Gate. Then we go across Crocodile Lake. And that's how we get to the High Tower to save the prince!

"HELP ME! ¡AYUDEME!"

Do you see the Big Gate?

"Yeah, there's the big gate!"

"Vamonos! Let's go save the prince!"

"And remember, watch out for the witch."

"Come on, say it with us!"

Gate, Lake, High Tower!
Gate, Lake, High Tower!
Gate, Lake, High Tower!
Gate, Lake, HIGH TOWER!

(Down a hill

and over a log!)

Come on, vamonos!

Everybody, let's go!

Come on, let's get to it!

I know that we can do it!

Where are we going?
High Tower! Where are we going?
High Tower!
WHERE are we going?!

(It's the Fiesta Trio!)
High Tower!

WHERE are we going?!?

HIGH TOWER!

HIGH TOWER!!!

We made it to the gate!

“This gate won’t open! Open, open, OPEN!!!”

Let’s use the magic word, “abre” to open the gate.

Say, “Abre!”

It worked!

And we didn’t even see

the Witch!

Uh-oh!

You see the witch? Where?!

”THE WITCH! THE WITCH! Here comes the Witch!”

Oh no! We have to close the gate quick!

Put your arms out in front of you and push the gate close!

“WHOOOOOOOOA!” screamed the Witch.

The Fiesta Trio marching over the gate.

We made it through the big gate and stopped the witch!

We went through the gate, so next comes…?

Do you see Crocodile Lake?

Boots remembers that

this was the part of the Witch’s forest

where the Prince lost his ball.

Dora thought they should find the ball themselves,

and then they could take it to the Prince.

“Tell us when you see the Prince's Ball.”

What's that? You see the Prince's Ball?

Look, Dora! It’s the prince’s ball!

We can take the ball to the prince!

All of a sudden, they hear something.

Boots, did you hear that?

Yeah!

It sounds like Swiper

the

Fox!
(He must have teamed up with the witch to slow us down!)

If he sees the

Prince's ball,

he'll swipe it

for sure!

Swiper, no swiping! Swiper, no swiping! Swiper, no swiping!!!

Oh, man!

(Nicely done, everyone!)
Boots grabbing the ball.

We better put the Prince's ball in Backpack for safe keeping.

"Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum! Delicioso!"

We made it to crocodile lake!

"Cocodrilos, cierra la boca!” Cierra,

cierra,

cierra,

cierra,

cierra!

Now they can jump across the crocodiles!

You have to stand up to jump! Stand up!

They jump across.

We made it across Crocodile Lake! And we didn’t even see the Witch!

Uh oh!

Do you see the Witch? Where?!

”THE WITCH! THE WITCH! HERE COMES THE WITCH!”

She’s jumping over the crocodiles!

Help them say, “abre” to make each crocodile open its mouth!

Abre!

Abre, abre, abre, abre!

"Gracias, cocodrilos!"

"De nada!"

We went through the gate and crossed the lake, so next comes…?

Do you see the High Tower?

"Help me!"

"¡Ayudeme!"

Prince Ramon, we've come to save you!

"Si! But you need the magic word

to open the tower door!"

"WE KNOW THE MAGIC WORD!"

"What's the magic word?"

"Right, 'abre'!"

"Say it with us!"

"ABRE!"

The door is opening!

"YAY!"

"We opened the tower door!"

"Let's go!"

Into the tower they go!

Sure is dark in here!

"Uh-oh! The steps are missing!"

"The witch must have taken them!" (Or worse! She destroyed them.)

"We have to put them back so we can climb the stairs!"

"Do you see the missing steps?"

That's better.

Now do you see them?

Right there.

"Yeah, there they are!"

"Ooh! There's LOTS of steps!"

"Do you remember how many steps lead up to the Prince’s door?"

[Try to think back to the story when the witch was locking up the prince.]

"Twelve, right! Twelve steps!"

"Let's make sure there's twelve."

Here are the twelve steps.

Now they’re put in place!

The door won’t open!

"What’s the magic word?"

Right! Abre! LOUDER!

It opened!

“You saved me!”

He says “gracias” to them

and the viewer.

Prince Ramón is so happy to be out of the tower!

"Thanks for saving me, amigos!"

"The Witch was MEAN to lock you in there!"

"But there’s no Witch now!"

WHAT?! You see the Witch!

“Oh no! If only I had my magic ball, then we'd be safe from the witch!”

“MAGIC ball?! Your ball is magic?”

"Si, but I lost my ball in the Witch’s Forest!"

Dora told him they found his ball along the way to save him. It’s in Backpack.

Hurry! Say, "Backpack!"

The Prince's magic ball is magenta and has a star on it. Can you find it?

"My magic ball! This will keep us safe!"

"So, you got out of the tower?" she gasped.

"Está bien,

I'll put another spell on you!"
(But what?!) This shocks them.

"Too late, witch! Now I have my magic ball!"

(whispers) "Abre."

“LET ME OUT!!! LET ME OUT!!!!!” cried the Witch.

“I’m NOT letting you out!” yelled the Prince.

"Please? ¿Por favor?"

“Prince Ramon, now you're stuck with a witch in your magic ball. That's not so good.”

“But I can't let her out. She might cast another spell on me.” he said. He really doesn’t trust her.
(It's not the heroic way! She MUST LIVE!!)

Dora has an idea! “Maybe we could let her out...

if she promises to be a good witch from now on.”

“Think it'll work?”

"YEAH, YEAH, YEAH!"

"Witch?"

"We'll open the ball and let you out

if you promise to be a good witch from now on.”

“Do you promise?”

"I promise to be a good witch!" she said with honesty.

Then it's settled! (Note: This exact picture can also be seen in To the Monkey Bars.)

We need to say the magic word to open the prince's ball!

WHAT'S the magic word?

Again!

ABRE!

"Friends?"

"Friends!"

YAY!

"We saved the prince!"

"And the witch won't be mean anymore!"

"I'm a good witch, now!"

We did it!

[Note: The animations were recycled from Backpack!.]

We did it! We did it!

We did it!

YAY!

Lo hicimos!

We did it!

We went through the gate and across the lake!

Yeah, we did it!

We did it!

We did it!

Hooray!

We saved the prince from the mean old witch!

We did it! We did it! We did it! We did it!

We said "Abre" in the tower,

And it opened

the doors!

The witch made a promise to be mean no more!

YAY!

WHOO!!

HOORAY!!!

WE DID IT!!!
(song ends)

WHOO!!!

(click, beep)

We had such a fun trip today!

What was your favorite part of the trip?

Dora likes that, too (of course)!

Boots likes when they

jumped across

the crocodiles!

Dora liked when they said "Abre" to open the tower doors and save the prince.