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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. Early Years
    03:15
    Early Years
  3. Growing Older With a Moustache
    03:24
    Growing Older With a Moustache
  4. My Superheroes
    04:35
    My Superheroes
  5. My Superpowers
    04:22
    My Superpowers
  6. Quick Quack Quentin
    06:04
    Quick Quack Quentin
  7. Stealing A's
    02:16
    Stealing A's
  8. Oi Frog!
    06:21
    Oi Frog!
  9. Alternative Ending
    03:46
    Alternative Ending
  10. Books and confidence
    01:08
    Books and confidence
  11. Developing your voice
    02:24
    Developing your voice
  12. Question and Answer - Part 1
    05:57
    Question and Answer - Part 1
  13. Reading from The Crossing
    04:47
    Reading from The Crossing
  14. Room on the Broom in Scots
    08:13
    Room on the Broom in Scots
  15. Forrester High's 2048 Predictions
    02:35
    Forrester High's 2048 Predictions
  16. Themes of books
    03:14
    Themes of books
  17. Down Behind The Dustbin
    02:41
    Down Behind The Dustbin
  18. Hand on the Bridge
    02:28
    Hand on the Bridge
  19. One frame
    01:29
    One frame
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