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About Our Tower
Growing up in a tower block provided the inspiration for a magical storybook.
  1. About Our Tower
    04:05
    About Our Tower
  2. Ghosts of Heaven
    02:56
    Ghosts of Heaven
  3. Spirals and cave art
    02:59
    Spirals and cave art
  4. The beginning of writing
    01:47
    The beginning of writing
  5. The teenage brain
    05:51
    The teenage brain
  6. Writing realistically
    01:59
    Writing realistically
  7. Reading
    03:16
    Reading
  8. Into a dark cave
    01:36
    Into a dark cave
  9. Questions near
    05:54
    Questions near
  10. Questions far
    02:42
    Questions far
  11. The Black Flamingo
    05:09
    The Black Flamingo
  12. Reading from Grimwood: Attack of the Stink Monster
    06:54
    Reading from Grimwood: Attack of the Stink Monster
  13. Discussing illustration
    03:51
    Discussing illustration
  14. Hooked on Reading
    03:03
    Hooked on Reading
  15. Writing in Scots
    02:48
    Writing in Scots
  16. Questions from pupils
    02:50
    Questions from pupils
  17. One frame
    01:29
    One frame
  18. Persistence
    01:24
    Persistence
  19. Emily's Books
    02:27
    Emily's Books
  20. Desert island books
    02:27
    Desert island books
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