Robert Roper

Writing about the author of the immortal Lolita and Pale Fire, Robert Roper fills out Vladimir Nabokov's American period, covering Nabokov's critical friendship with Edmund Wilson, his time at Cornell, his role at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. But Nabokov in America finds its narrative heart in his serial sojourns into the wilds of the West, undertaken with his wife, Vera, and their son over more than a decade. Nabokov covered more than...

On their first day of school Dora and Boots come to the rescue when their teacher's bike gets a flat tire. Includes a matching game.

Dora wants to spend a day at the ocean, but she is surprised to learn that Boots doesn't know how to swim. Boots gets his first swimming lesson from Mariana the Mermaid.

Dora visits the dental office.

"Read along as Dora and Boots help Baby Crab bring a shell necklace to his mother!"--P. [4] of cover.

Dora and Boots go to a carnival where they play games in order to win the grand prize.

Readers follow their favorite characters through various scenes, while searching for hard-to-find clues, characters and/or items. Also includes more challenges in the back of the book. Includes full-color illustrations, activities and challenges.

Dora's friend Benny the bull wants to pick a bouquet of flowers from Isa's garden as a birthday gift for his grandmother, but getting close to flowers makes him sneeze until Dora thinks up a solution.

Dora and Boots go down deep into the sea in a submarine to help Pirate Pig find his lost treasure chest. Features rebuses.