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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. A novel in verse
    01:02
    A novel in verse
  11. Reading from The Infinite
    05:46
    Reading from The Infinite
  12. Boogie Woogie Buggy
    01:41
    Boogie Woogie Buggy
  13. Whuppity Stoorie by Lari Don
    16:05
    Whuppity Stoorie by Lari Don
  14. Where monsters come from
    03:38
    Where monsters come from
  15. Truth and Lies
    13:33
    Truth and Lies
  16. Children’s Laureate
    03:24
    Children’s Laureate
  17. Drawing Bugbops
    10:18
    Drawing Bugbops
  18. How to Train Your Dragon reading
    04:38
    How to Train Your Dragon reading
  19. Walking and talking
    02:23
    Walking and talking
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