Colleen Laybourne-Smith, who lives in Shrivenham, has written an illustrated a children's book The Tales of Mr and Mrs Bartholomew Fox (Book Guild, £6.99).

It contains four stories about a fox living in a magic wood, told in rhyme. She has distributed it to 23 libraries in Singapore, as well as websites and bookshops across the country, plus the Burford Garden Centre. She was artist of the month for Faringdon in July.