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Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
Nadia explains how the Grimwood books came about and reveals all about her pets.
  1. Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
    08:22
    Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
  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. Audience questions
    03:17
    Audience questions
  10. A first science fiction novel
    00:44
    A first science fiction novel
  11. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  12. The Crackledawn Dragon
    02:10
    The Crackledawn Dragon
  13. Our Tower reading
    06:12
    Our Tower reading
  14. Whuppity Stoorie by Lari Don
    16:05
    Whuppity Stoorie by Lari Don
  15. Characters
    01:58
    Characters
  16. Questions from schools
    05:40
    Questions from schools
  17. Persistence
    01:24
    Persistence
  18. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
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