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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. Drawing Fruit and Veg
    04:16
    Drawing Fruit and Veg
  11. Hercules Song
    01:56
    Hercules Song
  12. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
  13. This is a democracy
    00:39
    This is a democracy
  14. Phil’s characters
    05:36
    Phil’s characters
  15. Reading of The River
    04:08
    Reading of The River
  16. What inspired Ross MacKenzie to continue with his series of books?
    01:13
    What inspired Ross MacKenzie to continue with his series of books?
  17. Crackledawn
    02:08
    Crackledawn
  18. Reading The Undefeated
    03:32
    Reading The Undefeated
  19. Diving Poem
    02:24
    Diving Poem
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