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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. This is a democracy
    00:39
    This is a democracy
  11. Walking and talking
    02:23
    Walking and talking
  12. The Black Flamingo
    05:09
    The Black Flamingo
  13. More Cookie Books
    01:04
    More Cookie Books
  14. Mental Health
    02:25
    Mental Health
  15. Questions from Linlithgow Academy
    05:02
    Questions from Linlithgow Academy
  16. Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
    01:05
    Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
  17. Draw Goldy the Gecko
    04:43
    Draw Goldy the Gecko
  18. Tom on his illustrations
    05:00
    Tom on his illustrations
  19. Ideas for books
    02:25
    Ideas for books
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