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Being Children’s Laureate
Cressida talks about her time as Children’s Laureate
  1. Being Children’s Laureate
    05:08
    Being Children’s Laureate
  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. Re-imagining Scottish folklore
    01:48
    Re-imagining Scottish folklore
  10. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  11. Reading of The Squirrels Who Squabbled
    03:47
    Reading of The Squirrels Who Squabbled
  12. Hooked on Reading
    03:03
    Hooked on Reading
  13. Scrapbooks and plans
    05:43
    Scrapbooks and plans
  14. Reading from Maddy Yip's guide to life
    09:49
    Reading from Maddy Yip's guide to life
  15. How did you learn to draw?
    00:36
    How did you learn to draw?
  16. Questions from Schools
    09:36
    Questions from Schools
  17. Questions from schools
    06:15
    Questions from schools
  18. Keeping Up With Michael
    01:39
    Keeping Up With Michael
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