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About Our Tower
Growing up in a tower block provided the inspiration for a magical storybook.
  1. About Our Tower
    04:05
    About Our Tower
  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. Reading from Grimwood: Attack of the Stink Monster
    06:54
    Reading from Grimwood: Attack of the Stink Monster
  10. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  11. Questions and Answers
    06:15
    Questions and Answers
  12. Reading from Race to the Frozen North
    02:32
    Reading from Race to the Frozen North
  13. Reading from The Crossover
    04:17
    Reading from The Crossover
  14. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  15. Making the change
    03:33
    Making the change
  16. Respecting each other
    01:57
    Respecting each other
  17. We are all storytellers
    05:27
    We are all storytellers
  18. The Crackledawn Dragon
    02:10
    The Crackledawn Dragon
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