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How do you come up with names for your characters?
Arlo and Augustus are great names for characters, but how does Catherine dream them up?
  1. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  2. Horrid Henry's Monster Movie
    01:23
    Horrid Henry's Monster Movie
  3. A proof reading
    05:09
    A proof reading
  4. How Henry happened
    05:58
    How Henry happened
  5. Ideas for Henry's stories
    07:00
    Ideas for Henry's stories
  6. Not a Horrid Henry book
    02:16
    Not a Horrid Henry book
  7. Tips for budding writers
    03:41
    Tips for budding writers
  8. Q&A with Francesca Simon
    04:30
    Q&A with Francesca Simon
  9. More Q&A with Francesca Simon
    04:21
    More Q&A with Francesca Simon
  10. Writing – when why how?
    09:26
    Writing – when why how?
  11. Weather and climate
    00:56
    Weather and climate
  12. The Selkie and Finfolkaheem
    03:48
    The Selkie and Finfolkaheem
  13. A question of inspiration
    02:51
    A question of inspiration
  14. Reading from Grimwood: Attack of the Stink Monster
    06:54
    Reading from Grimwood: Attack of the Stink Monster
  15. Illustrating the Book
    02:15
    Illustrating the Book
  16. A bit of a read
    04:28
    A bit of a read
  17. Phil’s characters
    05:36
    Phil’s characters
  18. How to draw a blobfish
    03:35
    How to draw a blobfish
  19. How important is it for young queer people to see themselves in fiction?
    03:12
    How important is it for young queer people to see themselves in fiction?
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