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How Books Start
Nikesh tells us how he gets ideas for books.
  1. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  2. Hopeless at maths!
    05:06
    Hopeless at maths!
  3. Writing stories
    04:44
    Writing stories
  4. Lily Alone
    04:23
    Lily Alone
  5. Hetty Feather
    09:05
    Hetty Feather
  6. The story of Tracy
    04:13
    The story of Tracy
  7. Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
    04:44
    Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
  8. More Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
    06:28
    More Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
  9. Slugs and Brain Pâté
    11:48
    Slugs and Brain Pâté
  10. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  11. Steven Lenton's illustrations
    00:35
    Steven Lenton's illustrations
  12. Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
    06:44
    Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
  13. Beginnings
    01:47
    Beginnings
  14. Cat Hepburn – poetry reading
    03:40
    Cat Hepburn – poetry reading
  15. Konnie’s Favourite Character
    00:58
    Konnie’s Favourite Character
  16. Reading from Grimwood: Attack of the Stink Monster
    06:54
    Reading from Grimwood: Attack of the Stink Monster
  17. Reluctant reader to avid writer
    08:03
    Reluctant reader to avid writer
  18. Balloons!
    02:59
    Balloons!
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