April News

The Old Watering Can

Louise Royston-Smith 

The Old Watering Can is a heart-warming story of an eccentric Grandma and her two watering cansbased on the classic fable ‘The CrackedPot’. Beautifully illustrated by up-and comingauthor/ illustrator, LouiseRoyston-Smith.

Paperback | 230 x 230mm | Pages 32

Publication 3 April | £8.99



Grandma has two watering cans which she takes with her to the greenhouse everyday.

One watering can is shiny, new, proud and perfect in every way, but the other one is old and leaky and would arrive at the greenhouse half empty.

The old watering can is ashamed of its leak, but when Grandma points out why she’s kept it all these years, the watering can realises that it has its own, very important purpose.


Louise Royston-Smith currently works as a designer for a London publisher. When she’s not sketching in a park or experimenting with her art materials, you might find her enjoying a dog walk or rummaging through a charity shop with a coffee in her hand.


Louise hopes her illustrations will evoke feelings of nostalgia and bring a sense of warmth and playfulness to reading for children and adults alike.

The Neuron Series
Marielle Bayliss and Kellyanne Thorne 

The Neurons looks at six common neurodiverse conditions, what causes them and how they affect people with the condition.

Paperback |150 x 150 | 48 pages | 

Publication 24 April | £4.99 (per title)

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Each Neuron book looks at one condition in detail using playful characterisations of neurons, the human brain and central nervous system as well as six children with the conditions. A fun, educational and accessible selection of titles, these six books offer a simple route for young children to understand what is happening to them and why.


Each book will also contain crucial condition specific information, for example the epilepsy book covers seizures and the Tourette syndrome book covers tics. They also offer a positive reflection of each condition by including several examples of how the conditions have a positive impact on the children’s lives as well as how they can make them more challenging.


Author Marielle Bayliss is a London-based author from the North East who comes to writing from a theatrical background.  As an actress and singer for over twenty years, her career has covered number-one tours of musicals and plays, radio, commercials, children’s nursery rhyme albums, and numerous voiceovers and audiobooks. Marielle is the author of the rhyming picture books Frog’s Bog and Frog in a Fog, both published by Graffeg. 
Illustrator Kellyanne Thorne is an artist and illustrator currently based in London. After completing a fine art degree with a specialism in sculpture, she began a career in teaching which she left after several years to raise her children. The Neuron series is a passion project due to Kellyanne’s background in education but especially as her son has both Autism and DCD.