If we are to take Dora’s initial age of 7 as canon when the series began in 2000, that would mean that Dora was born in August of 1993, and that her 31st birthday is just around the corner.

Released on Aug. 14, 2000, the first episode of “Dora the Explorer” moved forward in spite of an English-only movement bubbling up in California politics a few years prior; Proposition 227 passed in ...