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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. Reading from 'The Places I've Cried in Public'
    04:53
    Reading from 'The Places I've Cried in Public'
  11. Gil's bug hospital
    05:28
    Gil's bug hospital
  12. Reluctant reader to avid writer
    08:03
    Reluctant reader to avid writer
  13. Fan fiction of your life!
    01:05
    Fan fiction of your life!
  14. Introducing Sav Akyuz
    01:45
    Introducing Sav Akyuz
  15. A question of inspiration
    02:51
    A question of inspiration
  16. There’s Nothing Cuter Than A Puppy
    06:17
    There’s Nothing Cuter Than A Puppy
  17. What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
    04:19
    What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
  18. Hallowe'en in Scotland
    06:14
    Hallowe'en in Scotland
  19. We are all storytellers
    05:27
    We are all storytellers
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