Audio & Video
Favourite characters and Matthew Henson
Catherine talks about the characters in her books and the real people who inspired them.
- Favourite characters and Matthew Henson
- Introduction
- Genre
- The World
- Drawing out the secret character
- Character and story
- Stuff
- Obstacles
- Choices
- Summary
- There’s Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah
- Reading from Maddy Yip's guide to life
- School Questions
- Working with young writers
- Draw Goldy the Gecko
- Konnie’s Love of Science
- Alastair’s influences
- Themes of books
- Final thoughts
- Writing historical fiction



















