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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. 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. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  10. Chat with Comic Artist Tanya Roberts
    02:48
    Chat with Comic Artist Tanya Roberts
  11. Introduction to the Twitchers
    05:50
    Introduction to the Twitchers
  12. Daisy on the Outer Line
    02:34
    Daisy on the Outer Line
  13. Konnie Reads From Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World
    05:18
    Konnie Reads From Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World
  14. Sputnik
    00:55
    Sputnik
  15. Questions from West Calder High School
    05:42
    Questions from West Calder High School
  16. Who is Josh Bell?
    01:03
    Who is Josh Bell?
  17. Emily's Books
    02:27
    Emily's Books
  18. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
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