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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. Horrid Henry's Monster Movie
    01:23
    Horrid Henry's Monster Movie
  3. A proof reading
    05:09
    A proof reading
  4. How Henry happened
    05:58
    How Henry happened
  5. Ideas for Henry's stories
    07:00
    Ideas for Henry's stories
  6. Not a Horrid Henry book
    02:16
    Not a Horrid Henry book
  7. Tips for budding writers
    03:41
    Tips for budding writers
  8. Q&A with Francesca Simon
    04:30
    Q&A with Francesca Simon
  9. More Q&A with Francesca Simon
    04:21
    More Q&A with Francesca Simon
  10. Alastair’s influences
    00:28
    Alastair’s influences
  11. Characters
    01:58
    Characters
  12. Working with young writers
    01:12
    Working with young writers
  13. More Cookie Books
    01:04
    More Cookie Books
  14. Emily's Books
    02:27
    Emily's Books
  15. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  16. There’s Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah
    03:53
    There’s Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah
  17. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
  18. Pupils' questions
    07:21
    Pupils' questions
  19. Draw Goldy the Gecko
    04:43
    Draw Goldy the Gecko
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