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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. Beat the Calculator
    02:54
    Beat the Calculator
  3. 1089
    06:56
    1089
  4. Perfect pentagon
    04:14
    Perfect pentagon
  5. Fabulous flexagon
    02:05
    Fabulous flexagon
  6. Making Cubes
    05:26
    Making Cubes
  7. Prime number pizza
    04:24
    Prime number pizza
  8. Numerical masterclass
    03:20
    Numerical masterclass
  9. Q&A with Kjartan Poskitt
    05:19
    Q&A with Kjartan Poskitt
  10. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  11. Discussing illustration
    03:51
    Discussing illustration
  12. Persistence
    01:24
    Persistence
  13. Introducing Cookie
    04:11
    Introducing Cookie
  14. Start with a face
    02:25
    Start with a face
  15. Feather reading
    06:20
    Feather reading
  16. Joyful Poetry
    00:53
    Joyful Poetry
  17. School Questions
    08:45
    School Questions
  18. Pets
    00:55
    Pets
  19. Wishes
    01:04
    Wishes
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