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About Our Tower
Growing up in a tower block provided the inspiration for a magical storybook.
  1. About Our Tower
    04:05
    About Our Tower
  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. Emily's Books
    02:27
    Emily's Books
  10. A sudden idea
    01:52
    A sudden idea
  11. Sarah’s route into fiction
    07:16
    Sarah’s route into fiction
  12. Pupils' questions
    07:21
    Pupils' questions
  13. Reading from 'Daisy on the Outer Line'
    06:17
    Reading from 'Daisy on the Outer Line'
  14. Wishes
    01:04
    Wishes
  15. Chat with Comic Artist Tanya Roberts
    02:48
    Chat with Comic Artist Tanya Roberts
  16. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  17. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
  18. Questions from schools
    07:16
    Questions from schools
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