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Writing Haikus
Brian explains how haikus work and challenges you to write your own!
  1. Writing Haikus
    08:00
    Writing Haikus
  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. 100 Words on Friendship
    01:14
    100 Words on Friendship
  10. The main characters
    03:46
    The main characters
  11. The Crackledawn Dragon
    02:10
    The Crackledawn Dragon
  12. Tom on his illustrations
    05:00
    Tom on his illustrations
  13. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  14. Favourite book
    00:45
    Favourite book
  15. Authors Live with Holly Bourne
    34:04
    Authors Live with Holly Bourne
  16. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  17. Working with an illustrator
    02:38
    Working with an illustrator
  18. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
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