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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. Early Years
    03:15
    Early Years
  3. Growing Older With a Moustache
    03:24
    Growing Older With a Moustache
  4. My Superheroes
    04:35
    My Superheroes
  5. My Superpowers
    04:22
    My Superpowers
  6. Quick Quack Quentin
    06:04
    Quick Quack Quentin
  7. Stealing A's
    02:16
    Stealing A's
  8. Oi Frog!
    06:21
    Oi Frog!
  9. Alternative Ending
    03:46
    Alternative Ending
  10. A question from Blake
    01:15
    A question from Blake
  11. Questions from schools
    08:14
    Questions from schools
  12. Book Introduction
    01:20
    Book Introduction
  13. Comics
    04:26
    Comics
  14. Reading from The Crossing
    04:47
    Reading from The Crossing
  15. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  16. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  17. Diving Poem
    02:24
    Diving Poem
  18. What is the Nowhere Emporium?
    00:45
    What is the Nowhere Emporium?
  19. Reading from Maddy Yip's guide to life
    09:49
    Reading from Maddy Yip's guide to life
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