A slow burner… Rachel writes – Well Christmas has passed once again in what seems to be the blink of an eye in a flurry of family, food, presents, love and…in our case germs and lots of them! It all seems a distant memory by the third week in January but there are still a …
Baobab Tree Books Blog December 2022
For the love of reading… One of our absolute family favourite things about Christmas is our big, green, spangly sack of Christmas books which we save just for December. It’s an eclectic mix of classics, picture books, charity shop bargains, books that make us laugh out loud and even those with special effects and sounds. …
Baobab Tree Books Blog October 2022
How do you make a children’s picture book? Rachel: There really is no straightforward answer to this and indeed sometimes I’m not even sure myself where an idea comes from; it is just there. With Christmas Cabaret, I wanted to encourage children to eat their vegetables and be open minded to different shows/dances from different …
Baobab Tree Books Blog September 2022
Hello and welcome to our first blog! Baobab Tree Books are the indie publishing duo of sisters Rachel Ann Walmsley and Helen McKnockiter. What is indie publishing? It is the process of bringing a book together and publishing it without the aid of a traditional agent or publisher – going it alone so to …
Beavers Visit
Last night I got the chance to share Dotty with some local Beavers. This is the part of being an indie author that I love. We played some games with rhyming words and chatted through all things ‘dotty’ and all things ‘doggy’.
Library Visit
During the Summer holidays, I had the pleasure of sharing my new book Dotty the Dogwalker at my local library. Lots of children turned up and I got some great feedback. We shared an activity afterwards drawing Dotty with either a dog that you knew or your dream dog and I was super impressed with …
Meet the team
Hello, I’m Rachel Walmsley, the Author and here I am with my sister Helen McKnockiter, the Illustrator and together we are Baobab Tree Books. Our debut book Christmas Cabaret raised £2,450 for The Children’s Appeal as part of the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity and we were thrilled with the response. Having just started out on …
About me…
Hello, I’m Rachel and I am a Children’s picture book author and indie-publisher, based in Preston, Lancashire with my husband Simon and two children Fred and Ron. I have always loved reading and the written word and am an avid scrabble player. As a solicitor drafting was my favourite part of the job and then …