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How do you come up with names for your characters?
Arlo and Augustus are great names for characters, but how does Catherine dream them up?
  1. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  2. Introducing James
    01:39
    Introducing James
  3. How James got started
    03:33
    How James got started
  4. A pirate picture story
    10:15
    A pirate picture story
  5. Picturing Nessie
    04:01
    Picturing Nessie
  6. Q&A with James Mayhew
    11:26
    Q&A with James Mayhew
  7. How did you learn to draw?
    00:36
    How did you learn to draw?
  8. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  9. Joyful Poetry
    00:53
    Joyful Poetry
  10. Myths and Monsters
    11:48
    Myths and Monsters
  11. Finding the bear
    01:06
    Finding the bear
  12. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    02:52
    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
  13. Gil's bug hospital
    05:28
    Gil's bug hospital
  14. I can do this!
    02:32
    I can do this!
  15. Early drawings
    00:49
    Early drawings
  16. School days
    03:57
    School days
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