Meet Dezzy the neuron! Dezzy lives inside Sophie and sends messages to the brain to help her complete certain actions. 

Sometimes when Sophie reads, the letters and words seem to tap dance around the page and become jumbled. Sophie has dyslexia.

Find out more about dyslexia, how it affects Sophie and about Dezzy the neuron in this informative, compact book looking at neurons and dyslexia.

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.

The Neurons series has been a project in the works for many years, inspired in part by Marielle’s own experiences of living with Epilepsy as a child and adult.

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. During this time Kellyanne began creating her own work and rediscovered her love of drawing finding inspiration from the beauty within our natural world.

She regularly exhibits at well-established Art fairs and has completed a variety of commercial and private commissions. The Neuron series is a passion project due to Kellyanne’s background in education but especially as her son has both Autism and DCD.

I like that it spreads a message about the disorder and
creates a bigger understanding

“It spreads a good message about disorders”

“If you have a friend that is neuro divergent they can read this book they can relate and talk to them about it.”

Reviews from children at Victoria CP School