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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. How to Train Your Dragon reading
    04:38
    How to Train Your Dragon reading
  10. Read a long
    04:36
    Read a long
  11. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  12. Creating a magical place
    06:49
    Creating a magical place
  13. Questions from schools
    05:21
    Questions from schools
  14. Reading from Race to the Frozen North
    02:32
    Reading from Race to the Frozen North
  15. Desert island books
    02:27
    Desert island books
  16. Nadine Aisha Jassat – poetry reading
    03:11
    Nadine Aisha Jassat – poetry reading
  17. Dragonese
    01:19
    Dragonese
  18. Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
    01:45
    Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
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