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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. Stuck and The Incredible Book Eating Boy
    12:12
    Stuck and The Incredible Book Eating Boy
  3. Hueys
    11:15
    Hueys
  4. Q&A with Oliver Jeffers
    09:47
    Q&A with Oliver Jeffers
  5. Sarah’s route into fiction
    07:16
    Sarah’s route into fiction
  6. Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
    01:45
    Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
  7. Meeting the Wolf Queen
    02:20
    Meeting the Wolf Queen
  8. Steven Lenton's illustrations
    00:35
    Steven Lenton's illustrations
  9. Favourite characters and Matthew Henson
    04:28
    Favourite characters and Matthew Henson
  10. The hero birds
    03:03
    The hero birds
  11. Question and Answer - Part 2
    04:39
    Question and Answer - Part 2
  12. The Black Flamingo
    05:09
    The Black Flamingo
  13. Working with an illustrator
    02:38
    Working with an illustrator
  14. Studio questions
    03:22
    Studio questions
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