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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. Hopeless at maths!
    05:06
    Hopeless at maths!
  3. Writing stories
    04:44
    Writing stories
  4. Lily Alone
    04:23
    Lily Alone
  5. Hetty Feather
    09:05
    Hetty Feather
  6. The story of Tracy
    04:13
    The story of Tracy
  7. Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
    04:44
    Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
  8. More Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
    06:28
    More Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
  9. Introducing Cookie
    04:11
    Introducing Cookie
  10. Questions from pupils
    02:50
    Questions from pupils
  11. Gill reads from Willow Wildthing and the Dragon's Egg
    05:44
    Gill reads from Willow Wildthing and the Dragon's Egg
  12. Diving Poem
    02:24
    Diving Poem
  13. A first science fiction novel
    00:44
    A first science fiction novel
  14. More Cookie Books
    01:04
    More Cookie Books
  15. Have a go!
    01:10
    Have a go!
  16. 100 Words on Friendship
    01:14
    100 Words on Friendship
  17. Three pointers for writers
    01:10
    Three pointers for writers
  18. Balloons!
    02:59
    Balloons!
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