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Stories and puzzles
Alastair talks about how he first got into writing books
  1. Stories and puzzles
    01:34
    Stories and puzzles
  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. Questions from schools
    06:15
    Questions from schools
  10. Whuppity Stoorie by Lari Don
    16:05
    Whuppity Stoorie by Lari Don
  11. A Dog with Nice Ears
    07:10
    A Dog with Nice Ears
  12. Cuiken Primary film
    03:02
    Cuiken Primary film
  13. Ideas and inspirational teachers
    05:32
    Ideas and inspirational teachers
  14. Walking and talking
    02:23
    Walking and talking
  15. Hercules Song
    01:56
    Hercules Song
  16. The importance of libraries
    08:10
    The importance of libraries
  17. Feather reading
    06:20
    Feather reading
  18. Why comics matter
    06:03
    Why comics matter
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