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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. Stuck and The Incredible Book Eating Boy
    12:12
    Stuck and The Incredible Book Eating Boy
  3. Hueys
    11:15
    Hueys
  4. Q&A with Oliver Jeffers
    09:47
    Q&A with Oliver Jeffers
  5. Desert island books
    02:27
    Desert island books
  6. Sputnik
    00:55
    Sputnik
  7. Our Tower reading
    06:12
    Our Tower reading
  8. A sudden idea
    01:52
    A sudden idea
  9. Boogie Woogie Buggy
    01:41
    Boogie Woogie Buggy
  10. Steven Lenton's illustrations
    00:35
    Steven Lenton's illustrations
  11. Reading from The Crossover
    04:17
    Reading from The Crossover
  12. Writing Tips with... Alastair Chisholm
    09:12
    Writing Tips with... Alastair Chisholm
  13. Gill reads from Willow Wildthing and the Dragon's Egg
    05:44
    Gill reads from Willow Wildthing and the Dragon's Egg
  14. Writing in Scots
    02:48
    Writing in Scots
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