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The Black Flamingo
Dean gives us a flavour of The Black Flamingo with a reading from the opening chapter.
  1. The Black Flamingo
    05:09
    The Black Flamingo
  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. Themes of books
    03:14
    Themes of books
  10. Steven Lenton's illustrations
    00:35
    Steven Lenton's illustrations
  11. Storyboard
    03:26
    Storyboard
  12. How to Draw Granville's Head
    04:23
    How to Draw Granville's Head
  13. We are all storytellers
    05:27
    We are all storytellers
  14. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  15. More Cookie Books
    01:04
    More Cookie Books
  16. A first science fiction novel
    00:44
    A first science fiction novel
  17. Sue's early influences
    04:42
    Sue's early influences
  18. Walking and talking
    02:23
    Walking and talking
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