Jadora

 is the het ship between D.W. Read and James MacDonald from the Arthur fandom.

Canon
Dora Winifred "D.W." Read is the middle child of the Read family, being David and Jane Read's second child, Arthur Read's younger sister, and Kate Read's older sister. She attends Elwood Community Preschool with James as a classmate. D.W. can often be domineering towards the shy and timid James, but also shows concern for him sometimes.

Books
In the Arthur books, D.W. and James do not interact much, but in the book D.W. Flips, a rabbit that appears to be him attends gymnastics classes with D.W.

Cartoon
In the cartoon series, James has his first major role in the episode season 8 "Kiss and Tell", where D.W. is told by her friend Emily that she was kissed on the hand by a boy on a trip to France and that it made her feel like a princess in a fairytale. Out of jealousy, D.W. decides to find a "prince" of her own, and the next day at preschool, she chooses said "prince" to be James after he votes for "Sweet Dreams with Mary Moo Cow", which was D.W.'s candidate, to be the song that will be played at naptime. D.W. tells Emily that she will soon no longer be the only princess in the class, as D.W. will kiss James. However, Emily warns D.W. that James has to be the one to kiss her, or "something terrible might happen." D.W. then tries several methods to get James to kiss her, from approaching him in a disguise and introducing herself as "Nora," to playing herself off as a damsel in distress for him to save by spinning herself on a merry-go-round, all of which fail. Finally, she tries one last time by using her Princess Sneeze-and-Wet doll to pretend to be a mother carrying a load of groceries (from the cookies and milk line at preschool), but James still doesn't realize what D.W. is trying to get him to do. D.W. then stumbles and falls, which causes James to pay attention to her. D.W. gets angry at him, telling him she just wanted a kiss from him but chose the one kid in class who didn't even notice her. James cuts off her ranting by kissing her on the cheek, which leaves her stunned for a moment. When she recovers, she realizes that she hasn't turned into a princess like she thought she would. Afterward, when talking with Emily about the kiss she got, D.W. decides she doesn't see what the fuss about kissing is and that she would rather do cannonballs with her classmates Timmy and Tommy Tibble.

In the season 14 episode "D.W. Unties the Knot," James is once again at the center of D.W.'s romantic shenanigans. After seeing a reality show about fancy wedding parties titled Big, Fancy Wedding, she asks her father if she can have a wedding (missing out on the fact that a wedding means you have to actually marry someone and not just throw a fancy party), and he responds that she can when she's older. One hour later, she goes to Emily's house and tells her she's having a wedding, reasoning that since she is now an hour older, she can have one. D.W. and Emily get to preparing for the wedding with Muffy as the wedding planner (with D.W. telling Muffy that the wedding is for a made-up person named "Deeangeleenora Woo"). When Muffy asks D.W. who the groom is, and she looks over her classmates in the preschool playground, settling on James on a whim. Later, D.W. finds out from Muffy that a wedding means that the bride and groom are vowing to love each other and live together for eternity, causing D.W. to have second thoughts about it. Unfortunately, Muffy reveals that "Dee Woo" cannot back out of it now, as the wedding is tomorrow.

That night, D.W. has a dream about living together with James' entire extended family, always crowding her. The next day, she wants to spend time with her dad but learns that he has been hired to cater her wedding. At the ceremony, D.W. reveals to Muffy that she was "Dee Woo" all along and wants the wedding to be called off. When the time comes for D.W. to say "I do" to James, she instead tells him "I don't" and runs off in tears.

A few days later, D.W. is watching Big, Fancy Wedding again, this time with Emily, and although the two are glad that D.W. didn't get married, D.W. says she's going to miss Emily being her bridesmaid and asks her if she could be one again when she has a real wedding twenty years in the future.

Although the final episode of the show, "All Grown Up", ends with a flash-forward showing several of the characters, including D.W., as adults, an adult James is not shown, so how their relationship progressed when they got older is unknown.

Moments
In the season 11 episode "D.W. on Ice," D.W. tries to teach James ice skating to prepare him for Emily's upcoming ice skating party, although she proves to not be a very good teacher, only having ice skated three times herself.

In season 16, D.W. (with Emily) tries to help James get out of having to go to a sleepover at the Tibbles', as he is scared of spending time with the terrible twins, and is very upset when she's led to believe he died at the sleepover, even bringing flowers to his mother with Emily to show how much he meant to her (and Emily).

Otherwise, D.W. is shown attending events with James in a few episodes, such as Buster Baxter's magic show in season 12's "Do You Believe in Magic?" and Mr. Ratburn's puppet show in season 15's "Cents-less."

Fanon
is relatively obscure compared to other ships in the Arthur fandom such as Artcine, with it being featured in only a few fanfictions and pieces of fan art. There is only one fanfic under the "James MacDonald & Dora Winifred "D.W." Read" tag on AO3, which appears to be dead. The ship came about as a result of the episode "Kiss and Tell", where D.W. tries to get James to kiss her thinking it would turn her into a fairytale princess.

Romantic
Because D.W. and James are preschoolers, most fanart and fanfics involving them will portray their romance as childlike and innocent, with no explicit sexual content, or otherwise age them up.

Fandom
FAN FICTION