Kasey Holt, of Pleasant Point, wrote the children’s book Cotton At a Campsite, which is based on her son Chris and his passion for farming.
Mrs Holt, her husband and their two sons travelled and worked around Australia for a year in 2022.
The family adventure featured stops in Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales including a stay at a campsite in the agricultural town Moree.
At the campsite, Chris, then aged 7, pulled a trolley around the campsite, selling ziplock bags of cotton to travellers.
His business "Cotton at a Campsite", earned him more than $200.
In the book, the main character was named Delungra, an Australian native echidna, who teaches travellers at the campsite about cotton farming, from planting to harvest.
Mrs Holt said people wore cotton every day but many did not understand where it came from.
She was raised in Australia and her father was a cotton farmer.
Many travellers at the campsite would ask her questions about cotton and she was surprised by the number of people who did not know how it was produced.
When the family returned to Pleasant Point, she decided to use her agronomy knowledge to write a book.
"I've written this wee farming story about how and where cotton comes from."
