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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. Introducing James
    01:39
    Introducing James
  3. How James got started
    03:33
    How James got started
  4. A pirate picture story
    10:15
    A pirate picture story
  5. Picturing Nessie
    04:01
    Picturing Nessie
  6. Q&A with James Mayhew
    11:26
    Q&A with James Mayhew
  7. McLean Primary eco projects
    02:44
    McLean Primary eco projects
  8. Questions from Linlithgow Academy
    05:02
    Questions from Linlithgow Academy
  9. Bear Moves
    02:28
    Bear Moves
  10. Studio questions
    02:06
    Studio questions
  11. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  12. Discussing illustration
    03:51
    Discussing illustration
  13. Feather reading
    06:20
    Feather reading
  14. Daisy on the Outer Line
    02:34
    Daisy on the Outer Line
  15. Orion Lost reading
    02:48
    Orion Lost reading
  16. Alastair’s influences
    00:28
    Alastair’s influences
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