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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. Simon Cowell
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    Simon Cowell
  3. Raj
    01:15
    Raj
  4. Characters
    02:09
    Characters
  5. Finishing feelings
    01:20
    Finishing feelings
  6. School dinners
    00:54
    School dinners
  7. Thames
    01:04
    Thames
  8. Favourite book
    02:25
    Favourite book
  9. Next book
    01:00
    Next book
  10. Favourite author
    01:17
    Favourite author
  11. Gangsta Granny
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    Gangsta Granny
  12. Readers and writers
    06:47
    Readers and writers
  13. Reading from Race to the Frozen North
    02:32
    Reading from Race to the Frozen North
  14. Books and confidence
    01:08
    Books and confidence
  15. Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
    05:25
    Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
  16. Whuppity Stoorie by Lari Don
    16:05
    Whuppity Stoorie by Lari Don
  17. Reluctant reader to avid writer
    08:03
    Reluctant reader to avid writer
  18. Myths and Monsters
    11:48
    Myths and Monsters
  19. A novel in verse
    01:02
    A novel in verse
  20. The World of the Wolf Queen
    04:14
    The World of the Wolf Queen
  21. Walking and talking
    02:23
    Walking and talking
  22. Daisy on the Outer Line
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    Daisy on the Outer Line
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