Anna will love this! I have known about it for a while and Nick Jr. has some short blip videos on their site. On the site there it is called "DOWNWARD DOGHOUSE". What is so exciting about the cartoon is that it will be much like Dora the Explorer, only it will teach Mandarin and has a cute little Chinese girl in it. And it will no longer be just 2 minutes long, but 30 minutes, just like Dora. I am excited to know that Anna (and me, too) will be able to learn some Chinese. She has really picked up on the Spanish from Dora.
http://www.nickjr.com/shows/down/index.jhtml
The below was found on another blog of an adoptive parent.
According to the NY Times, "Kai-lan [the main character] inhabits a fantastical realm with an impulsive tiger, a koala who longs to be a panda, a pink rhino and a dumpling-loving monkey. Kai-lan is 'a born leader who makes affirmative connections with people and nature, paying attention to the feelings of others,' said a consultant for the series, Dr. Janxin Leu, a cultural psychologist at the University of Washington in Seattle who studies the dynamics of Chinese-American families. She is part of an advisory team of educational researchers and social scientists that helped develop curriculum goals for a show that builds on the interactivity of Blue's Clues and the bilingualism of Dora the Explorer."
They'll also feature regular Mandarin vocabulary words. The whole show just sounds intriguing to me.
Ms. Harrington, the show's executive producer, said she "hoped the series would have a special resonance for the estimated 60,000 girls in the United States who have been adopted from Chinese orphanages." And the 10-year-old girl Jade-Lianna Peters who is the voice of Kai-lan on the series was herself adopted from China.
Here is a link featuring a story about the girl who will be doing the voice of Kai-Lan.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=591289
Can't wait until the show starts!
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