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Themes of books
Tom discusses why he focuses on feelings and emotions in his books.
  1. Themes of books
    03:14
    Themes of books
  2. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    02:52
    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
  3. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    03:10
    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
  4. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
  5. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
  6. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
  7. Discovering New Words
    03:16
    Discovering New Words
  8. Favourite Scots Words
    04:20
    Favourite Scots Words
  9. Our Tower reading
    06:12
    Our Tower reading
  10. Feather reading
    06:20
    Feather reading
  11. Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
    05:14
    Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
  12. Alastair’s influences
    00:28
    Alastair’s influences
  13. Becoming an Author
    00:58
    Becoming an Author
  14. Questions from schools
    05:58
    Questions from schools
  15. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
  16. School days
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    School days
  17. Kiran’s writing process
    05:08
    Kiran’s writing process
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