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The real world and the fictional world
How a rain forest in Wales provided inspiration for Kiran’s fictional world.
  1. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
  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. What Can Boys Learn From This Novel?
    03:02
    What Can Boys Learn From This Novel?
  10. Characters
    01:58
    Characters
  11. School days
    03:57
    School days
  12. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  13. Konnie Reads From Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World
    05:18
    Konnie Reads From Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World
  14. What is the Nowhere Emporium?
    00:45
    What is the Nowhere Emporium?
  15. Children’s Laureate
    03:24
    Children’s Laureate
  16. Daisy on the Outer Line
    02:34
    Daisy on the Outer Line
  17. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  18. Working with young writers
    01:12
    Working with young writers
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