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Being Children’s Laureate
Cressida talks about her time as Children’s Laureate
  1. Being Children’s Laureate
    05:08
    Being Children’s Laureate
  2. Horrid Henry's Monster Movie
    01:23
    Horrid Henry's Monster Movie
  3. A proof reading
    05:09
    A proof reading
  4. How Henry happened
    05:58
    How Henry happened
  5. Ideas for Henry's stories
    07:00
    Ideas for Henry's stories
  6. Not a Horrid Henry book
    02:16
    Not a Horrid Henry book
  7. Tips for budding writers
    03:41
    Tips for budding writers
  8. Q&A with Francesca Simon
    04:30
    Q&A with Francesca Simon
  9. More Q&A with Francesca Simon
    04:21
    More Q&A with Francesca Simon
  10. Questions from Schools
    09:36
    Questions from Schools
  11. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  12. Questions
    04:03
    Questions
  13. The origins of 'Lads'
    06:09
    The origins of 'Lads'
  14. Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
    01:05
    Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
  15. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    03:10
    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
  16. Reading from Grimwood: Attack of the Stink Monster
    06:54
    Reading from Grimwood: Attack of the Stink Monster
  17. Names and Questions
    07:57
    Names and Questions
  18. The right words in the right order
    02:38
    The right words in the right order
  19. Sarah’s route into fiction
    07:16
    Sarah’s route into fiction
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