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Steven Lenton's illustrations
Frank and Janice have a look at some of the pictures from his book.
  1. Steven Lenton's illustrations
    00:35
    Steven Lenton's illustrations
  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 Does Your Own Personal Experience Shape Your Writing?
    02:32
    How Does Your Own Personal Experience Shape Your Writing?
  10. Questions from the audience
    09:53
    Questions from the audience
  11. Creating a magical place
    06:49
    Creating a magical place
  12. What are you favourite things about books?
    01:20
    What are you favourite things about books?
  13. Persistence
    01:24
    Persistence
  14. The hero birds
    03:03
    The hero birds
  15. Alastair’s influences
    00:28
    Alastair’s influences
  16. Beginnings
    01:47
    Beginnings
  17. The power of fantasy fiction
    04:28
    The power of fantasy fiction
  18. The story rollercoaster
    00:58
    The story rollercoaster
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