Dee and Flee Series

Author: Julia Hubery

Illustrator: Laura Wood

Format: Paperback, 210 x 148mm

Pagination: 112

Word count: 5,000

Age: 5 to 7

Dee and Flee are the best of friends.Dee is a dog and Flee is flea (or is he an intergalactic explorer?). They share adventures in haunted Howl Castle, at Paradise Beach and on the Boom Band Boogie Bus, as Dee and Flee find there’s fun to have, memories to make, people to help and skills to learn in all sorts of hospitality and tourism roles.

Dee and Flee at the Theme Park

Julia Hubery 

Laura Wood

Age 5 -7

Publication February 2024 

£9.99

Join Dee and Flee as they prepare for their first day as Happy Helpers at Miles of Smiles Adventure Park. Eager to make a fabulous impression, they have been busy practising their smiles all week – but is that all they need to make it through the day?

Dee and Flee at the Haunted Castle

Julia Hubery 

Laura Wood

Age 5-7

Publication 25 February 2025

£9.99

Dee is excited about her new job, a tour guide at haunted Howl Castle, but increasingly frustrated by working under wolf Ms Prowl. A micro-manager with strict rules, Ms Prowl never listens to employees’ suggestions. Suspicious that Dee may be trying NEW ideas in her tours, Ms Prowl and her assistant Beak continually check up on her. How will Dee cope when she is put in charge of a castle sleepover? And what happens when an undercover ‘Travel WOW!’ reporter visits the castle?

Dee and Flee Smooth Operators

Julia Hubery 

Laura Wood

Age 5-7

Publication Autumn 2025

£9.99

Dee is working for Smooth Operators, a coach travel company specialising in school and youth group tours, and will be the onboard rep for a multi-destination trip by a youth band. A grumpy whippet coach-driver, a very laidback band leader, and Flee having fun with three naughty triplets threaten to wreck Dee’s careful plans – can she keep things on

track?

Dee and Flee at the Paradise Beach

Julia Hubery 

Laura Wood

Age 5-7

Publication Spring 2026

£9.99

Dee & Flee run a pop-up Slushie Bar on Paradise Beach, and invent a beach challenge where customers can have a Slushie invented and named for them if they win a weekly ‘Clean-the-Beach’ event – but someone wants the beach to stay dirty

Dee and Flee at the Happy-Skis Hotel

Julia Hubery 

Laura Wood

Age 5-7

Publication Autumn 2026

£9.99

Lovey and Joy Honeytail run the prettiest, cosiest hotel on the ski slopes. When Dee joins their family hotel team it feels like the happiest job ever – and she and Flee learn to ski! Then Lovey and Joy fall out, the family takes sides and Dee and Flee are left in the middle trying to keep some very strange guests happy

Dee and Flee at the Phantom Village

Julia Hubery 

Laura Wood

Age 5-7

Publication Spring 2027

£9.99

Dee and Flee join a team helping a community put life back into an abandoned village with a very strange history, but everyone wants something different from the plans. Can Dee and Flee help build a dream they can all share?

Meet the Author 

Julia Hubery was born in Stamford

and trained as an architect. She loves

the countryside and nature, finding it

a pool of inspiration to draw on in her

writing. Julia now lives in Gosport with

her husband and three children. She has published 16 picture books, translated into many languages, including When Granny Saved Christmas, A Little Fairly Magic and That’s What Friends are For - all with Little Tiger Press.

Meet the Illustrator

Laura Wood is originally from Treviglio, a small town in the north of Italy. She studied illustration in Melbourne, Australia, but now lives and works in Milan with her two cats. Since 2012, Laura has illustrated picture books, junior fiction, magazines and textbooks.

The European Travel Commission is pleased to offer financial support to publishers within Europe for the translation and publication of Dee and Flee at the Theme Park from Graffeg.