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Final thoughts
What would Alan like readers to take away from Lads?
  1. Final thoughts
    01:33
    Final thoughts
  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. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  10. Writing – when why how?
    09:26
    Writing – when why how?
  11. Draw Along
    10:16
    Draw Along
  12. Keeping Up With Michael
    01:39
    Keeping Up With Michael
  13. Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
    03:08
    Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
  14. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
  15. Questions from schools
    06:06
    Questions from schools
  16. Discussing illustration
    03:51
    Discussing illustration
  17. Boogie Woogie Buggy
    01:41
    Boogie Woogie Buggy
  18. Room on the Broom in Scots
    08:13
    Room on the Broom in Scots
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