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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. There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 1
    04:07
    There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 1
  11. The Selkie and Finfolkaheem
    03:48
    The Selkie and Finfolkaheem
  12. Reading from The Infinite
    05:46
    Reading from The Infinite
  13. Questions from schools
    05:22
    Questions from schools
  14. The World of the Crossing
    08:03
    The World of the Crossing
  15. Audience questions
    03:17
    Audience questions
  16. Elle and the characters of The Infinite
    04:35
    Elle and the characters of The Infinite
  17. Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
    01:45
    Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
  18. Favourite book
    00:45
    Favourite book
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