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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. The Choosing
    03:14
    The Choosing
  3. From a Mouse
    04:19
    From a Mouse
  4. To a Mouse
    02:42
    To a Mouse
  5. Tam o' Shanter
    05:50
    Tam o' Shanter
  6. Q&A with Liz Lochhead
    06:10
    Q&A with Liz Lochhead
  7. More Q&A with Liz Lochhead
    06:56
    More Q&A with Liz Lochhead
  8. Ideas
    03:35
    Ideas
  9. Reading from The Crossover
    04:17
    Reading from The Crossover
  10. Discussing illustration
    03:51
    Discussing illustration
  11. Questions from schools
    05:40
    Questions from schools
  12. Whuppity Stoorie by Lari Don
    16:05
    Whuppity Stoorie by Lari Don
  13. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  14. Questions from schools
    07:16
    Questions from schools
  15. Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
    06:44
    Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
  16. Our Tower reading
    06:12
    Our Tower reading
  17. How Catherine works
    00:59
    How Catherine works
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