Rachel Walker

Rachel Walker

Rachel Walker
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Race	Human
Gender	♀ Female

Rachel Walker is one of the main protagonists in the Rainbow Magic series, alongside her best friends Kirsty Tate, Gracie Adebayo and Khadijah Khan. She is the daughter of Mr Walker and Mrs Walker.

Appearance

Rachel has long, curly golden hair with a wavy fringe that is pushed to the side and is usually in a ponytail, though it has also been hung loose at times. In the film, her hair is kept down and curls at the ends. Rachel has blue eyes (as mentioned in Lacey). She is often shown wearing her fairy dust locket.

Official Facebook description

Rachel is a high flying speed demon. She loves doing loop-de-loops and racing with dragonflies. (Luckily she has more cautious Kirsty along as a spotter, because Rachel hardly ever watches where she's flying). She's mechanically inclined. She can fix a bicycle and likes to take things apart to find out how they work. This often comes in handy on an adventure. Now if she can only fix her dad's lawn mower before he finds out she took it apart. When she grows up Rachel wants to be a helicopter pilot or a race car driver... or maybe both.

Personality

Like Kirsty, Rachel is a friendly, caring girl who is loyal, adventurous and fun-loving. She sometimes feels sorry for Jack Frost because he doesn't have friends. At first, Rachel was quite skeptical of the idea of magic until she met the fairies.

Rachel is quite tomboyish and outgoing and is particularly fond of a wide range of sports. When working with fairies to help retrieve their magic objects, Rachel is the most likely to take physical action, while Kirsty usually devises the plans. She seems to be quite impulsive, often jumping to ideas or actions without thinking them through. This is evident in many of the books, Rachel is the most likely of the two girls to get frozen or trapped by Jack Frost and his goblins.

In the movie, Rachel's impulsiveness is further demonstrated when she discards her locket after being bullied by Lydia and her friends. As a town girl, Rachel is also more socially aware than Kirsty and gets frustrated at her for flippantly talking about fairies in earshot of others. However, Kirsty is quick to reignite Rachel's faith in fairies and Rachel is able to stand up for herself and Kirsty when the bullies begin to tease her best friend.

Fun Facts

Favourite Colour: Purple.
Pets: Buttons, her dog.
Unforgettable Adventure: Celebrating Kirsty's cousin, Esther's wedding (as said in the My Big Book of Fairies).
Favourite Movie: Starlight Chronicles.
Favourite Book: Books by Poppy Fields.
Favourite Pantomime(s): The Nutcracker and Swan Lake.
Favourite Sport: Netball.
School Friends: Karen Lewis, Jessy, Amy, Claire, Adam, Ellie, Holly, Zac, Tanya, Isabel and Abby.

Age

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Biography

Rachel as she appears in Return to Rainspell Island — Rachel as she appears in *Return to Rainspell Island*

Rachel lives in Tippington Town with her parents and her dog, Buttons and has a seemingly small bedroom, painted pink and containing a dressing table (as shown in the movie), as well a picture of a horse on the wall above her bed (India).

She likes the colour pink to some extent, as it is Kirsty's favourite, but she really prefers purple (Phoebe and Trixie). She likes Izzy the Indigo Fairy as she represents a shade of purple. Rich, The Angels' stylist, thought that the colour Rachel looked best in was blue (Destiny).

She is also quite adventurous, though initially not as brave as Kirsty (Ruby). Both girls love it when their parents let them go off on their own to play and have adventures. Rachel, however, likes sports a lot more than Kirsty does: she enjoys running having won a prize for running on sports day (Tallulah) and is good at ball games, especially netball. She also is good at bowling and can juggle as well (Jade and Giselle). She also likes to play video games (Fizz and Zelda), but prefers to do something else when there is more exciting things to do (Fizz). Additionally, Rachel likes skateboarding, being rather good at it, in comparison to Kirsty enjoying skating (Pia). Similarly, on their winter holidays, Rachel chose a snowboard, while Kirsty chose skis (Gabriella).

Rachel also loves food, mainly all kinds of sweets, chocolates, cupcakes and cakes. In particular, she seems to like Golden Crunch chocolates (Clara) and Marshmallow Magic ice cream (Esme). It isn't like her to turn down dessert (Fizz) and one of her dream jobs is to work in a sweet factory, like Candyland (Lottie).

Rachel loves school and attends Tippington School, most likely a combination of primary and secondary school, the uniform for which is grey and blue (Gemma). They are tons of children in Rachel's school, most with skills and interests, as well as teachers such as Miss Patel, Mrs Bowler, Mrs Hilaria, Mrs Ratha and Mr Beaker, many of whom Rachel likes (Leah, School Days Fairies, Addison, Tilly and Felicia). Lydia, Bril, Angela and Wendy, the human antagonists of Return to Rainspell Island, also attend Tippington School and are often called the 'Popular Girls'. Although being loyal friends, Rachel and Kirsty are openly welcome to making new friends such as Matt and Lucas (Twilight Fairies), Sarah and Anna (Susie), Emily and Isabel (Billie) and numerous kids at the Sunsands beach resort (Becky), as well as Gracie and Khadijah in the later books (Hope).

Rachel loves reading as much as Kirsty does, their favourite stories being fairytales, as well as princess stories (Princess Fairies).

Rachel has a friend named Karen Lewis, who takes tap dance classes. Rachel would love to be able to tap dance (Megan). She and Rachel are also in the same ballet class (Paige).

Rachel, as well as Kirsty, is a devoted Brownie, often helping at events, either with her own troop or Kirsty's (Angelica). She also attends many school events, such as the museum sleepover (Selena) or the party in the woods (Polly).

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Family

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Trivia

Rachel was the first character to appear in the first Rainbow Magic book.
Rachel does not appear in Niamh the Invitation Fairy, Lois the Balloon Fairy and Helen the Sailing Fairy.
Rachel is three months younger than Kirsty (Cherry), so as Kirsty's birthday is in the Easter holidays (in or around April), it stands to reason that Rachel's birthday is most likely in or around July, placing it in or close to the start of the Summer holidays.
Rachel owns a phone as well as a green frog toy, to remind her of Bertram, the Royal Frog Footman (Samantha and Chrissie).
Rachel usually is the one who gets trapped or frozen by Jack Frost.
She lives in a circle and is good friends with her neighbour Sam, who is a little older than her (Belle).
Kirsty talks about Rachel a lot, as said by Uncle John (Rebecca), who exclaimed "the famous Rachel" and Aunt Harri (Lottie).
Like with Kirsty and Gracie, Rachel is an only child.
When Pandora the Poodle Fairy turns the girls into puppies, Rachel appears as a golden poodle puppy, with fur the same colour as her hair.
In the movie, Return to Rainspell Island, she is voiced by Grace Vance.
Rachel's name differs in adaptions around the world:

Country	Name
U.K/U.S/Denmark	Rachel Walker
France	Rachel Walker (old) Léa Walker (new)
U.S-Canadian French	Rachel Vallée
Portugal/Spain	Raquel Walker
Sweden	Rebecka
Germany	Kathy Miller
Indonesia	Rachel
Slovenia	Nina Hribar
Italy	Rachele
Turkey	Rüya
Norway	Rakel
Japan	レイチェル (Reicheru)
Wales	Siriol Edwards
Poland	Sonia (old) Laurze or Sarze (new)
Greece	Ρέιτσελ (Rachel)
Lithuania	Rachelę
Slovakia	Rebeka
Czech Republic	Ráchel
Netherlands	Sanne Lijnkamp
South Korea	레이첼 워카 (Rachel Walker)
Russia	Рейчел (Rachel)
China	瑞秋 (Rachel)
Croatia	Sanja
Serbia	Рејчел Вокер (Rachel Walker)
Brazil	Carol or Aninha
Ukraine	Рейчел Вокер (Rachel Walker)
Bulgaria	Рейчъл (Rachel)
Lebanon	رشا (Rasha) or ساره (Sarah)
Iran	ریچل واکر (Rachel Walker)
Israel	רייצ'ל (Rachel)