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What are you favourite things about books?
Ross answers the question from Jordan from St James' Primary.
  1. What are you favourite things about books?
    01:20
    What are you favourite things about books?
  2. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    02:52
    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
  3. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    03:10
    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
  4. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
  5. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
  6. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
  7. Discovering New Words
    03:16
    Discovering New Words
  8. Favourite Scots Words
    04:20
    Favourite Scots Words
  9. Poetry is everywhere
    14:55
    Poetry is everywhere
  10. What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
    04:19
    What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
  11. Introduction to the Twitchers
    05:50
    Introduction to the Twitchers
  12. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  13. Brian’s writing and favourite books
    04:33
    Brian’s writing and favourite books
  14. Making the change
    03:33
    Making the change
  15. A question from Blake
    01:15
    A question from Blake
  16. The story rollercoaster
    00:58
    The story rollercoaster
  17. A question from Freya.
    01:00
    A question from Freya.
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