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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. 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. Keep going!
    01:28
    Keep going!
  10. Working with an illustrator
    02:38
    Working with an illustrator
  11. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  12. There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 1
    04:07
    There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 1
  13. Slugs and Brain Pâté
    11:48
    Slugs and Brain Pâté
  14. Questions from West Calder High School
    05:42
    Questions from West Calder High School
  15. The life of Matthew Henson
    08:12
    The life of Matthew Henson
  16. Reading from The Infinite
    05:46
    Reading from The Infinite
  17. How to draw a blobfish
    03:35
    How to draw a blobfish
  18. How important is it for young queer people to see themselves in fiction?
    03:12
    How important is it for young queer people to see themselves in fiction?
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