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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. Ghosts of Heaven
    02:56
    Ghosts of Heaven
  3. Spirals and cave art
    02:59
    Spirals and cave art
  4. The beginning of writing
    01:47
    The beginning of writing
  5. The teenage brain
    05:51
    The teenage brain
  6. Writing realistically
    01:59
    Writing realistically
  7. Reading
    03:16
    Reading
  8. Into a dark cave
    01:36
    Into a dark cave
  9. Questions near
    05:54
    Questions near
  10. Questions far
    02:42
    Questions far
  11. Children’s Laureate
    03:24
    Children’s Laureate
  12. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  13. A novel in verse
    01:02
    A novel in verse
  14. How to draw emotions
    04:34
    How to draw emotions
  15. Cracking questions
    02:08
    Cracking questions
  16. What Can Boys Learn From This Novel?
    03:02
    What Can Boys Learn From This Novel?
  17. Keep going!
    01:28
    Keep going!
  18. Truth and Lies
    13:33
    Truth and Lies
  19. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  20. How to Train Your Dragon reading
    04:38
    How to Train Your Dragon reading
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