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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. Bendy, bendy toothbrush
    03:49
    Bendy, bendy toothbrush
  3. Book titles
    03:49
    Book titles
  4. Going through the old photos
    06:17
    Going through the old photos
  5. Hand on the bridge
    02:21
    Hand on the bridge
  6. If you weren't writing poetry books for children what would you like to have done instead?
    02:29
    If you weren't writing poetry books for children what would you like to have done instead?
  7. What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
    04:19
    What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
  8. A Dog with Nice Ears
    07:10
    A Dog with Nice Ears
  9. Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
    05:14
    Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
  10. Hooked on Reading
    03:03
    Hooked on Reading
  11. Reading from Race to the Frozen North
    02:32
    Reading from Race to the Frozen North
  12. How to draw a blobfish
    03:35
    How to draw a blobfish
  13. Being Children’s Laureate
    05:08
    Being Children’s Laureate
  14. Walking and talking
    02:23
    Walking and talking
  15. Sarah’s route into fiction
    07:16
    Sarah’s route into fiction
  16. Myths and Monsters
    11:48
    Myths and Monsters
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