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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. Bendy, bendy toothbrush
    03:49
    Bendy, bendy toothbrush
  3. Book titles
    03:49
    Book titles
  4. Going through the old photos
    06:17
    Going through the old photos
  5. Hand on the bridge
    02:21
    Hand on the bridge
  6. If you weren't writing poetry books for children what would you like to have done instead?
    02:29
    If you weren't writing poetry books for children what would you like to have done instead?
  7. There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 2
    04:25
    There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 2
  8. Reading from 'The Places I've Cried in Public'
    04:53
    Reading from 'The Places I've Cried in Public'
  9. Our Tower reading
    06:12
    Our Tower reading
  10. Twitch reading
    05:36
    Twitch reading
  11. Birdspotting Quiz
    05:46
    Birdspotting Quiz
  12. Keeping Up With Michael
    01:39
    Keeping Up With Michael
  13. Writing Haikus
    08:00
    Writing Haikus
  14. Wizards of Once reading
    04:24
    Wizards of Once reading
  15. How to Draw Eric Dynamite
    08:33
    How to Draw Eric Dynamite
  16. The right words in the right order
    02:38
    The right words in the right order
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