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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. Hopeless at maths!
    05:06
    Hopeless at maths!
  3. Writing stories
    04:44
    Writing stories
  4. Lily Alone
    04:23
    Lily Alone
  5. Hetty Feather
    09:05
    Hetty Feather
  6. The story of Tracy
    04:13
    The story of Tracy
  7. Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
    04:44
    Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
  8. More Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
    06:28
    More Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
  9. Weather and climate
    00:56
    Weather and climate
  10. Our Tower reading
    06:12
    Our Tower reading
  11. A question from Freya.
    01:00
    A question from Freya.
  12. How to Draw Eric Dynamite
    08:33
    How to Draw Eric Dynamite
  13. Audience questions
    03:17
    Audience questions
  14. Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
    01:45
    Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
  15. Sarah’s route into fiction
    07:16
    Sarah’s route into fiction
  16. Reading of The Squirrels Who Squabbled
    03:47
    Reading of The Squirrels Who Squabbled
  17. School days
    03:57
    School days
  18. Balloons!
    02:59
    Balloons!
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