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Emily's Books
Author Emily MacKenzie tells us about some of the books she has written and illustrated.
  1. Emily's Books
    02:27
    Emily's Books
  2. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    02:52
    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
  3. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    03:10
    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
  4. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
  5. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
  6. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
  7. Discovering New Words
    03:16
    Discovering New Words
  8. Favourite Scots Words
    04:20
    Favourite Scots Words
  9. Working with an illustrator
    02:38
    Working with an illustrator
  10. Favourite characters and Matthew Henson
    04:28
    Favourite characters and Matthew Henson
  11. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  12. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  13. Characters and Themes
    04:51
    Characters and Themes
  14. Cracking questions
    02:08
    Cracking questions
  15. Writing – when why how?
    09:26
    Writing – when why how?
  16. Schools questions
    09:55
    Schools questions
  17. Writing Haikus
    08:00
    Writing Haikus
  18. Ideas for books
    02:25
    Ideas for books
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