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Stories and puzzles
Alastair talks about how he first got into writing books
  1. Stories and puzzles
    01:34
    Stories and puzzles
  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. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  10. Bear Moves
    02:28
    Bear Moves
  11. Elle and the characters of The Infinite
    04:35
    Elle and the characters of The Infinite
  12. Reading The Undefeated
    03:32
    Reading The Undefeated
  13. Draw Noi and his dad
    10:03
    Draw Noi and his dad
  14. Questions from schools
    05:21
    Questions from schools
  15. Writing Fiction
    01:29
    Writing Fiction
  16. Being Children’s Laureate
    05:08
    Being Children’s Laureate
  17. Hooked on Reading
    03:03
    Hooked on Reading
  18. Wizards of Once reading
    04:24
    Wizards of Once reading
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