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Favourite characters and Matthew Henson
Catherine talks about the characters in her books and the real people who inspired them.
  1. Favourite characters and Matthew Henson
    04:28
    Favourite characters and Matthew Henson
  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. How to draw a blobfish
    03:35
    How to draw a blobfish
  11. We are all storytellers
    05:27
    We are all storytellers
  12. Introduction to the Twitchers
    05:50
    Introduction to the Twitchers
  13. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
  14. Diving Poem
    02:24
    Diving Poem
  15. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    02:52
    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
  16. More questions
    01:42
    More questions
  17. What are you favourite things about books?
    01:20
    What are you favourite things about books?
  18. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
  19. School Questions
    05:51
    School Questions
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