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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. Hooked on Reading
    03:03
    Hooked on Reading
  10. Diving Poem
    02:24
    Diving Poem
  11. The World of the Crossing
    08:03
    The World of the Crossing
  12. Ideas
    03:35
    Ideas
  13. Working with young writers
    01:12
    Working with young writers
  14. Self-Defence
    02:59
    Self-Defence
  15. The main characters
    03:46
    The main characters
  16. Working in Comics
    01:09
    Working in Comics
  17. He Had a Little Sticker
    01:25
    He Had a Little Sticker
  18. Fan fiction of your life!
    01:05
    Fan fiction of your life!
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