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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. Horrid Henry's Monster Movie
    01:23
    Horrid Henry's Monster Movie
  3. A proof reading
    05:09
    A proof reading
  4. How Henry happened
    05:58
    How Henry happened
  5. Ideas for Henry's stories
    07:00
    Ideas for Henry's stories
  6. Not a Horrid Henry book
    02:16
    Not a Horrid Henry book
  7. Tips for budding writers
    03:41
    Tips for budding writers
  8. Q&A with Francesca Simon
    04:30
    Q&A with Francesca Simon
  9. More Q&A with Francesca Simon
    04:21
    More Q&A with Francesca Simon
  10. More Cookie Books
    01:04
    More Cookie Books
  11. How did you learn to draw?
    00:36
    How did you learn to draw?
  12. The Undefeated
    01:19
    The Undefeated
  13. Read a long
    04:36
    Read a long
  14. Twitch reading
    05:36
    Twitch reading
  15. Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
    01:45
    Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
  16. Being Children’s Laureate
    05:08
    Being Children’s Laureate
  17. Introducing Cookie
    04:11
    Introducing Cookie
  18. Kiran’s writing process
    05:08
    Kiran’s writing process
  19. Questions from schools
    05:22
    Questions from schools
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