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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. 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. A Dog with Nice Ears
    07:10
    A Dog with Nice Ears
  10. Reading from Grimwood: Attack of the Stink Monster
    06:54
    Reading from Grimwood: Attack of the Stink Monster
  11. How to Draw Eric Dynamite
    08:33
    How to Draw Eric Dynamite
  12. Developing your voice
    02:24
    Developing your voice
  13. The power of fantasy fiction
    04:28
    The power of fantasy fiction
  14. Making the change
    03:33
    Making the change
  15. Reading from The Boxer
    01:42
    Reading from The Boxer
  16. Hand on the Bridge
    02:28
    Hand on the Bridge
  17. We are all storytellers
    05:27
    We are all storytellers
  18. Ideas and inspirational teachers
    05:32
    Ideas and inspirational teachers
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