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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. Cat Hepburn – poetry reading
    03:40
    Cat Hepburn – poetry reading
  10. Questions from schools
    05:21
    Questions from schools
  11. School Questions
    05:51
    School Questions
  12. Discussing illustration
    03:51
    Discussing illustration
  13. Tom on his illustrations
    05:00
    Tom on his illustrations
  14. Wizards of Once reading
    04:24
    Wizards of Once reading
  15. Where monsters come from
    03:38
    Where monsters come from
  16. The poetry community
    01:45
    The poetry community
  17. Questions from schools
    06:40
    Questions from schools
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