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Stories and puzzles
Alastair talks about how he first got into writing books
  1. Stories and puzzles
    01:34
    Stories and puzzles
  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. Down Behind The Dustbin
    02:41
    Down Behind The Dustbin
  10. Questions from schools
    08:14
    Questions from schools
  11. Elle and the characters of The Infinite
    04:35
    Elle and the characters of The Infinite
  12. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  13. Kiran’s writing process
    05:08
    Kiran’s writing process
  14. Rachel’s books and inspirations
    06:29
    Rachel’s books and inspirations
  15. Becoming an Author
    00:58
    Becoming an Author
  16. Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
    05:14
    Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
  17. Our Tower reading
    06:12
    Our Tower reading
  18. How Catherine works
    00:59
    How Catherine works
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