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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. 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. Re-imagining Scottish folklore
    01:48
    Re-imagining Scottish folklore
  10. Working with an illustrator
    02:38
    Working with an illustrator
  11. A question from Blake
    01:15
    A question from Blake
  12. The Black Flamingo
    05:09
    The Black Flamingo
  13. Diving Poem
    02:24
    Diving Poem
  14. More questions
    01:42
    More questions
  15. Crackledawn
    02:08
    Crackledawn
  16. Introducing Wain
    00:21
    Introducing Wain
  17. There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 1
    04:07
    There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 1
  18. Elle and the characters of The Infinite
    04:35
    Elle and the characters of The Infinite
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