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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. Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
    05:25
    Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
  12. What Can Boys Learn From This Novel?
    03:02
    What Can Boys Learn From This Novel?
  13. Tom on his illustrations
    05:00
    Tom on his illustrations
  14. How to Train Your Dragon reading
    04:38
    How to Train Your Dragon reading
  15. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  16. Writing Tips with... Catherine Rayner
    08:13
    Writing Tips with... Catherine Rayner
  17. Noi and his family
    03:19
    Noi and his family
  18. Writing – when why how?
    09:26
    Writing – when why how?
  19. Orion Lost reading
    02:48
    Orion Lost reading
  20. Prez
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    Prez
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