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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. Bendy, bendy toothbrush
    03:49
    Bendy, bendy toothbrush
  3. Book titles
    03:49
    Book titles
  4. Going through the old photos
    06:17
    Going through the old photos
  5. Hand on the bridge
    02:21
    Hand on the bridge
  6. If you weren't writing poetry books for children what would you like to have done instead?
    02:29
    If you weren't writing poetry books for children what would you like to have done instead?
  7. Questions from schools
    07:40
    Questions from schools
  8. Questions from schools
    05:22
    Questions from schools
  9. Reading from The Boxer - Part 2
    04:07
    Reading from The Boxer - Part 2
  10. Taking Up Boxing
    03:04
    Taking Up Boxing
  11. How Catherine works
    00:59
    How Catherine works
  12. Ideas and inspirational teachers
    05:32
    Ideas and inspirational teachers
  13. Weather and climate
    00:56
    Weather and climate
  14. Walking and talking
    02:23
    Walking and talking
  15. Questions from West Calder High School
    05:42
    Questions from West Calder High School
  16. Reading The Undefeated
    03:32
    Reading The Undefeated
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