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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. Final thoughts
    01:33
    Final thoughts
  10. Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
    01:05
    Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
  11. The World of the Crossing
    08:03
    The World of the Crossing
  12. Rewilding and creating a space for nature
    09:01
    Rewilding and creating a space for nature
  13. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  14. Phil’s characters
    05:36
    Phil’s characters
  15. The importance of libraries
    08:10
    The importance of libraries
  16. Questions from schools
    05:21
    Questions from schools
  17. Tom on his illustrations
    05:00
    Tom on his illustrations
  18. How to draw emotions
    04:34
    How to draw emotions
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