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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. 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. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  10. Stories and puzzles
    01:34
    Stories and puzzles
  11. Gill reads from Willow Wildthing and the Dragon's Egg
    05:44
    Gill reads from Willow Wildthing and the Dragon's Egg
  12. Reading The Undefeated
    03:32
    Reading The Undefeated
  13. Where monsters come from
    03:38
    Where monsters come from
  14. A bit of a read
    04:28
    A bit of a read
  15. Names and Questions
    07:57
    Names and Questions
  16. Three pointers for writers
    01:10
    Three pointers for writers
  17. A question from Freya.
    01:00
    A question from Freya.
  18. Gil's bug hospital
    05:28
    Gil's bug hospital
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