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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. Introducing Andy
    01:55
    Introducing Andy
  3. Young Andy
    07:15
    Young Andy
  4. Reading
    06:53
    Reading
  5. Writing stories
    08:20
    Writing stories
  6. Q&A with Andy Stanton
    07:29
    Q&A with Andy Stanton
  7. More Q&A with Andy Stanton
    08:22
    More Q&A with Andy Stanton
  8. Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
    01:05
    Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
  9. Book Introduction
    01:20
    Book Introduction
  10. Finding the bear
    01:06
    Finding the bear
  11. Questions from schools
    06:40
    Questions from schools
  12. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  13. Cuiken Primary film
    03:02
    Cuiken Primary film
  14. Questions from schools
    05:58
    Questions from schools
  15. There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 2
    04:25
    There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 2
  16. A question from Freya.
    01:00
    A question from Freya.
  17. Reading of The Squirrels Who Squabbled
    03:47
    Reading of The Squirrels Who Squabbled
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