When teaching children, Barbara found that telling stories to her pupils accelerated their ability to learn. Barbara was then inspired to write her first book, Cartwheeling Chestie Nut, about which Mrs Pip Otton, Headteacher of Laburnum Grove Junior School, Bognor Regis, wrote “I was impressed by the way the book so clearly promotes the use of speech in a charming way that would appeal to children, both boys and girls […] The charming story could certainly switch uninspired children back on to reading.”

Barbara then published Nic and His Nutty N’Uncle and Giant’stalestold and has since followed these up, in 2015 with Nic’s Nutty N’Uncle and The Giant Tells More Tales.