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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. 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. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  12. Tom on his illustrations
    05:00
    Tom on his illustrations
  13. Respecting each other
    01:57
    Respecting each other
  14. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
  15. How Catherine works
    00:59
    How Catherine works
  16. Pupils' questions
    07:21
    Pupils' questions
  17. Where monsters come from
    03:38
    Where monsters come from
  18. Process of illustration and writing
    01:40
    Process of illustration and writing
  19. Introducing us to new historical figures
    02:35
    Introducing us to new historical figures
  20. Diving Poem
    02:24
    Diving Poem
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