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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. Stuck and The Incredible Book Eating Boy
    12:12
    Stuck and The Incredible Book Eating Boy
  3. Hueys
    11:15
    Hueys
  4. Q&A with Oliver Jeffers
    09:47
    Q&A with Oliver Jeffers
  5. I can do this!
    02:32
    I can do this!
  6. Writing Haikus
    08:00
    Writing Haikus
  7. How important is it for young queer people to see themselves in fiction?
    03:12
    How important is it for young queer people to see themselves in fiction?
  8. Wordplay
    14:05
    Wordplay
  9. More questions
    01:42
    More questions
  10. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
  11. Making the change
    03:33
    Making the change
  12. Reading from The Boxer
    01:42
    Reading from The Boxer
  13. Beginnings
    01:47
    Beginnings
  14. Have a go!
    01:10
    Have a go!
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