The European Travel Commission is pleased to offer financial support to publishers within Europe for the translation and publication of two children’s series from Graffeg, Dee and Flee and Searchlight. This initiative aims to foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of the tourism sector among young readers.

Funding Available

Grants of up to €3,500 per title are available, with an additional provision of €500 dedicated to marketing efforts. Apply here: https://etc-corporate.org/dee-and-flee-at-the-theme-park-and-searchlight-the-rock-book-translations/

Eligibility Criteria

To be considered for this grant, publishers must be located in one of the European Travel Commission member countries – https://etc-corporate.org/our-members/ – and specialise in publishing in one of these countries' national languages. For detailed information on the rights available in your country and to request a PDF of the titles, as well as for any further information, please email media@graffeg.com. Following your inquiry, Graffeg will connect you with the appropriate rights agent.

About the Titles

The grant covers two titles designed to introduce children to the world of tourism, encouraging them to explore career opportunities in travel, hospitality, and beyond. These books are the first in a series planned to inspire the next generation.

Rights

Rights are available for both titles as either a rights sale or co-edition. Email rights@graffeg.com for more details.

Co-edition timetable

For publication April 2025

Translation to Graffeg September 2024

Proofs signed off October 2024

Delivery February 2025

For publication September 2025

Translation to Graffeg April 2025

Proofs signed off May 2025

Delivery July 2025

For publication April 2026

Translation to Graffeg September 2025

Proofs signed off October 25

Delivery February 26

Grant Details

A grant of up to €3,500 per title is available for the published translation of either Searchlight: The Rock or Dee and Flee at the Theme Park, with an additional €500 for marketing. Publishers may apply for grants for one or both titles, submitting separate applications for each.

Application Requirements

Applicants must provide comprehensive details, including publisher and translator information, proposed first print run, cost evaluation, additional funding sources, and a publishing schedule. Preliminary contact with Graffeg or their rights agent, The Rights Solution, is necessary to ensure the exclusivity of language editions.

Register Your Interest

For further information and to register for updates, visit the ETC website:
https://etc-corporate.org/dee-and-flee-at-the-theme-park-and-searchlight-the-rock-book-translations/

Contact

For more information about the grant and how to apply, please email rights@graffeg.com.

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?

Searchlight: The Rock

Ann Bryant

Laura Wood

Age 7-12

£9.99

Publication February 2024

After being forced to flee from their home planet, twins Zane and Finola find themselves on Earth. Dad is lost and Mum is no longer able to teleport, meaning that it is up to the twins to reunite their family. With such a large reward on offer for whoever is able to find the ‘aliens’, Zane and Finola can’t trust anyone and must make sure that they never break cover on their tour of planet Earth.

Searchlight: Treasure Hunt

Ann Bryant

Laura Wood

Age 7-12

£9.99

Publication March 2025

Book one of the series sees Zane and Finola learning new skills in their journey around Albrigart. Zane and Finola are now in another country at a traditional country fête, but Finola catches sight of a familiar face and the twins have to escape. But if they go now, they won’t get to join in the treasure hunt, which they are now convinced will lead them to Dad.

Searchlight: Carrion Crow

Ann Bryant

Laura Wood

Age 7-12

£9.99

Publication November 2025

The news is reporting that a fourth member

of the alien family, believed to be the father

has handed himself over to ANT. Could this

be Dad? Or is it a trap? The twins teleport to the ANT headquarters in the fictional town of Molshtock to see what they can find out. Everyone is on the lookout

for twins so Finola and Zane separate. It is in the brain museum that Zane comes across the amazing stuffed carrion crow along with Dad’s incredible message. The twins must now put their trust in Nick Robinson

Searchlight: The Capture

Ann Bryant

Laura Wood

Age 7-12

£9.99

Publication July 2026

Zane’s teleporting skills are diminishing, but he must make the journey to Balacira. After a long and exhausting journey, Zane is reunited with Finola and Nick. Nick engineers a meeting with Dad in a remote part of the grounds of the hotel, but unbeknown to the family, a worker from the hotel is watching the encounter from a little distance and reports the family to the authorities. As they are discovered lying low in the hotel, the twins and Dad are suddenly surrounded by journalists but Zane and Finola manage to escape as Dad offers himself up to ANT to

protect them. But what happens to Dad and will Zane and Finola make it back home with the journalists following them?

Searchlight: Them and Us

Ann Bryant

Laura Wood

Age 7-12

£9.99

Publication November 2026

Mum and the twins decide the game is up and they will hand themselves in just to be with Dad. And so, the family is reunited in a very moving scene, but at what cost? The twins fear for their lives when they

become separated from Mum and Dad, captured by an evil faction working undercover in ANT.

Searchlight: Escape

Ann Bryant

Laura Wood

Age 7-12

£9.99

Publication July 2027

The evil faction in ANT imprisons the twins. These imposters in the research company plan to steal Finola’s teleporting brain power. Finola and Zane have to use all the skills they’ve learn in order to escape. In a final twist the twins return to Albrigart, where they re-meet the elderly ape, and discover that

empathy knows no limits.