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Introducing The Black Flamingo
Dean describes his novel in verse, The Black Flamingo.
  1. Introducing The Black Flamingo
    00:27
    Introducing The Black Flamingo
  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. Fan fiction of your life!
    01:05
    Fan fiction of your life!
  10. Chris McQueer – reading
    03:07
    Chris McQueer – reading
  11. Re-imagining Scottish folklore
    01:48
    Re-imagining Scottish folklore
  12. How to draw a blobfish
    03:35
    How to draw a blobfish
  13. Questions from schools
    04:02
    Questions from schools
  14. Illustrating the Book
    02:15
    Illustrating the Book
  15. We are all storytellers
    05:27
    We are all storytellers
  16. Comics
    04:26
    Comics
  17. More Cookie Books
    01:04
    More Cookie Books
  18. Health and Medicine
    04:36
    Health and Medicine
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