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Ideas for books
Mia wants to know where Ross gets his ideas for writing books.
  1. Ideas for books
    02:25
    Ideas for 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. Reading The Undefeated
    03:32
    Reading The Undefeated
  10. Noi and his family
    03:19
    Noi and his family
  11. The Undefeated
    01:19
    The Undefeated
  12. Reading from Maddy Yip's guide to life
    09:49
    Reading from Maddy Yip's guide to life
  13. Question time
    04:36
    Question time
  14. Questions from schools
    08:14
    Questions from schools
  15. Alastair’s influences
    00:28
    Alastair’s influences
  16. Reading from The Boxer - Part 2
    04:07
    Reading from The Boxer - Part 2
  17. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  18. Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
    05:14
    Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
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