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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. The Choosing
    03:14
    The Choosing
  3. From a Mouse
    04:19
    From a Mouse
  4. To a Mouse
    02:42
    To a Mouse
  5. Tam o' Shanter
    05:50
    Tam o' Shanter
  6. Q&A with Liz Lochhead
    06:10
    Q&A with Liz Lochhead
  7. More Q&A with Liz Lochhead
    06:56
    More Q&A with Liz Lochhead
  8. Keep going!
    01:28
    Keep going!
  9. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  10. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
  11. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  12. A question of inspiration
    02:51
    A question of inspiration
  13. Introducing Cookie
    04:11
    Introducing Cookie
  14. How to Draw Eric Dynamite
    08:33
    How to Draw Eric Dynamite
  15. Writing Tips with... Catherine Rayner
    08:13
    Writing Tips with... Catherine Rayner
  16. Questions from schools
    05:40
    Questions from schools
  17. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
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