Description

Hey Duggee: Where’s Duggee? Summer Fun

Hey Duggee: Where’s Duggee? Summer Fun is a bright and busy search-and-find activity book that invites children to join Duggee and the Squirrels on a collection of exciting summer adventures. Young readers can explore detailed scenes, search for familiar characters, and spot hidden objects at the waterpark, around the campfire, and inside the Squirrel Club clubhouse.

Published by BBC Children’s Books, this colourful paperback provides screen-free entertainment while encouraging observation, concentration, visual memory, and early vocabulary. Each lively scene gives children something new to discover, making the book suitable for repeat use throughout the holidays.

Hey Duggee: Where’s Duggee? Summer Fun is ideal for preschool children, young Hey Duggee fans, long journeys, family holidays, and quiet afternoons at home.

Find Duggee and the Squirrels

Duggee, Tag, Norrie, Roly, Happy, and Betty are enjoying a busy summer, but can children find them within every colourful scene?

Young readers must examine the pictures carefully, scan different areas, and locate the requested characters or objects. Some may be easy to identify, while others require additional patience and concentration.

Parents can support younger children by providing simple clues:

• “Look near the water.”
• “Can you see something yellow?”
• “Which Squirrel is beside Duggee?”
• “Look carefully around the clubhouse.”
• “Can you find something hiding?”
• “What is behind that character?”

These hints allow children to continue searching without immediately revealing the answer.

Splash-Tastic Waterpark Fun

One of the summer adventures takes Duggee and the Squirrels to a waterpark. The busy scene provides plenty of characters, colours, objects, and activities for children to investigate.

Parents can use the illustration to introduce words connected with water and summer play. They might discuss splashing, swimming, slides, pools, towels, and other items appearing within the scene.

Adults can ask:

• “Who is having fun in the water?”
• “Can you find Duggee?”
• “How many Squirrels can you count?”
• “Which object is floating?”
• “What colours can you see?”
• “What would you enjoy doing at a waterpark?”

Talking about the scene helps turn the visual search into a broader vocabulary and communication activity.

A Cosy Campfire Evening

Duggee and the Squirrels also enjoy a cosy evening around the campfire. This scene introduces a different atmosphere and gives children new details to discover.

Parents can discuss how daytime and evening scenes differ. They can talk about changes in light, the night sky, outdoor sounds, and appropriate behaviour around a supervised campfire.

Children can imagine what stories the Squirrels might tell or what sounds they could hear outside. This encourages creative thinking while keeping the search-and-find activity connected to the story.

Arts and Crafts at the Clubhouse

Back at the clubhouse, the Squirrels enjoy creative arts and crafts. The colourful materials and busy activity provide another detailed scene filled with items to spot.

Adults can invite children to identify different colours, shapes, tools, and art materials. They can also ask what the Squirrels might be making.

After completing the page, families can extend the activity by creating their own simple summer picture using crayons, paper, and child-safe art supplies.

Children might draw:

• Duggee at the waterpark
• The Squirrels around a campfire
• A favourite summer activity
• Their own Squirrel Club badge
• A sunny outdoor scene

This links observation with imagination and creative expression.

Developing Observation Skills

Search-and-find books encourage children to slow down and examine illustrations instead of quickly turning the pages. They must remember what they are looking for and compare different parts of the picture.

Exploring Hey Duggee: Where’s Duggee? Summer Fun may support:

• Visual concentration
• Attention to detail
• Visual memory
• Character recognition
• Pattern matching
• Patience
• Persistence
• Problem-solving

Finding a difficult object can give children a satisfying sense of achievement and motivate them to attempt the next challenge.

Practising Counting and Colours

Parents can create additional activities using the detailed scenes. After finding the printed items, children can count characters, compare groups, or search for objects of a particular colour.

Useful questions include:

• “How many Squirrels can you see?”
• “Can you find three blue objects?”
• “Which group has more characters?”
• “How many items are near Duggee?”
• “Can you find something red?”
• “Which object is the biggest?”

These informal games introduce early counting, comparison, size, and colour recognition without making the experience feel like a formal lesson.

Building Early Vocabulary

The summer settings contain many objects, characters, actions, and places that parents can name and discuss. Children can learn words connected with waterparks, camping, art, outdoor play, and warm-weather activities.

Adults can also introduce positional words by describing where hidden items are located:

• Above and below
• Beside and between
• Near and far
• Inside and outside
• In front of and behind
• Left and right

For example, a parent might say, “Look behind the Squirrel,” or “Can you find the object beside Duggee?” Visible examples can make these words easier to understand.

Encouraging Memory and Repetition

After exploring the book several times, children may begin remembering where particular characters and objects are hidden. This does not reduce the value of the activity. Remembering locations provides useful visual-memory practice.

Parents can add new challenges by asking children to:

• Find an item without using the printed clue
• Remember what appeared on the previous page
• Name all five Squirrels
• Find every object of one colour
• Describe a scene after closing the book
• Create a new item for an adult to locate

These variations help keep familiar pages entertaining.

Independent and Shared Play

Children can explore the book independently once they understand the search-and-find format. They can choose a favourite scene, work at their own pace, and return to difficult challenges later.

The book is also suitable for shared family play. Parents, siblings, or friends can take turns searching or compete gently to see who notices an object first.

Older children can give clues to younger readers, while adults can encourage everyone to explain how they found each item.

A Convenient Travel Activity

The lightweight paperback is useful for holidays and journeys. It does not require a screen, internet connection, batteries, stickers, or additional equipment.

Families can use it during:

• Car journeys
• Flights
• Hotel stays
• Restaurant visits
• School holidays
• Rainy summer days
• Visits to relatives
• Quiet time at home

Because the pictures can be searched repeatedly, the book provides more than a single-use activity.

About Hey Duggee

Hey Duggee is a BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning animated preschool series about a friendly dog who runs the Squirrel Club. Duggee guides Tag, Norrie, Roly, Happy, and Betty through outdoor adventures, games, creative challenges, and new learning experiences.

Featuring the voice of comedian and presenter Alexander Armstrong, the programme encourages children to be active, curious, cooperative, helpful, and imaginative. The Squirrels usually earn a badge after completing a challenge and celebrate with a famous Duggee Hug.

Families can explore more titles through the official Hey Duggee book collection.

Who Should Use Where’s Duggee? Summer Fun?

This book is suitable for:

• Children from approximately two years old
• Preschool and early-primary readers
• Young Hey Duggee fans
• Children who enjoy search-and-find books
• Early learners developing observation skills
• Families looking for holiday entertainment
• Nurseries and preschool activity collections
• Anyone searching for a screen-free children’s gift

These publication details are confirmed by the official Penguin UK listing.

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Hey Duggee: Where’s Duggee? Summer Fun – Penguin UK

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Hey Duggee Book Collection – Penguin UK

Search, Spot and Enjoy Summer with Duggee

Hey Duggee: Where’s Duggee? Summer Fun combines colourful summer locations, favourite Squirrel Club characters, detailed illustrations, and entertaining visual challenges.

Whether children are searching through the waterpark, exploring the campfire scene, or investigating arts and crafts at the clubhouse, this packed activity book offers repeatable screen-free fun while supporting concentration, vocabulary, memory, and observation. Ah-woof!