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Favourite characters and Matthew Henson
Catherine talks about the characters in her books and the real people who inspired them.
  1. Favourite characters and Matthew Henson
    04:28
    Favourite characters and Matthew Henson
  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. Down Behind The Dustbin
    02:41
    Down Behind The Dustbin
  10. Orion Lost reading
    02:48
    Orion Lost reading
  11. Feather reading
    06:20
    Feather reading
  12. Schools questions
    09:55
    Schools questions
  13. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  14. Questions from schools
    06:06
    Questions from schools
  15. Developing your voice
    02:24
    Developing your voice
  16. How to draw a blobfish
    03:35
    How to draw a blobfish
  17. Reading from The Boxer - Part 2
    04:07
    Reading from The Boxer - Part 2
  18. The poetry community
    01:45
    The poetry community
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