The story of The Beatles has been retold in fabric and embroidery by Merseyside textiles artist Maria Saunderson for a children's book. It begins with the band's earliest incarnation as skiffle group The Quarrymen.

The book, called Once Upon A Liverpool, follows the Fab Four's career from their first performances in The Quarrymen to their last sessions at Abbey Road.

It has been created by Ms Saunderson, from New Brighton, who used about 150 pieces of fabric, as well as beads and sequins, to create each of the 12 scenes.

The book is Ms Saunderson's second work in fabric - she previously created The Brave Little Ferryboats, which told the story of how Liverpool’s ferries, the Royal Iris and the Royal Daffodil, got their Royal title.

She said creating the images, which took two years, had been daunting because the group's story was "epic and ongoing".

"It was difficult to know where to start and where to end. I continuously researched it while I was stitching the illustrations, as I wanted to make sure that the details were right, which on occasion has proved difficult, as facts about them seem to change on a regular basis," she said.

She said one such scene was the performance on the roof of the Apple headquarters in Saville Row, London. She said: "Ringo was wearing a red PVC Mac. I noticed that the buttons on his coat were on the wrong side - after more research, I found out that Ringo had borrowed his wife's coat as it'd started to rain and John had borrowed Yoko Ono’s fur coat."