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Children’s Laureate
Joseph explains what it means to be Children’s Laureate and meeting Queen Camilla!
  1. Children’s Laureate
    03:24
    Children’s Laureate
  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. Wordplay
    14:05
    Wordplay
  10. Reading from The Crossing
    04:47
    Reading from The Crossing
  11. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  12. About Our Tower
    04:05
    About Our Tower
  13. The poetry community
    01:45
    The poetry community
  14. Sport brings us together
    02:36
    Sport brings us together
  15. School days
    03:57
    School days
  16. Brian’s writing and favourite books
    04:33
    Brian’s writing and favourite books
  17. Orion Lost reading
    02:48
    Orion Lost reading
  18. Dealing with Racists
    01:11
    Dealing with Racists
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