A MODEL-MAKER who worked on the Harry Potter films has launched a book.

Daisy Dawes, a former reporter and sub-editor of the Pioneer’s sister paper The Chester Chronicle, signed her book at Waterstone’s, Chester, last week.

Get Ahead Fred is Daisy’s first children’s book. Designed to widen vocabulary, it uses rhymes to teach children the names of all the hats in Fred’s collection, and is written for children aged four and over.

Daisy, of New Brighton, who regularly runs art and design workshops for schoolchildren and works as a tutor for an educational charity, said: “Creating beautiful children’s books is a dream come true.

“Art can be so inspiring and I hope my storybooks will help children of all abilities to read and learn.”

Get Ahead Fred is published by Maverick Books, priced £5.99.