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How Books Start
Nikesh tells us how he gets ideas for books.
  1. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  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. Reading of The Squirrels Who Squabbled
    03:47
    Reading of The Squirrels Who Squabbled
  10. Questions from schools
    07:37
    Questions from schools
  11. Mental Health
    02:25
    Mental Health
  12. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  13. Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
    06:44
    Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
  14. Scottish words and questions from schools
    08:09
    Scottish words and questions from schools
  15. Self-Defence
    02:59
    Self-Defence
  16. How to Draw Granville's Body
    07:54
    How to Draw Granville's Body
  17. Creating a magical place
    06:49
    Creating a magical place
  18. How to Draw Eric Dynamite
    08:33
    How to Draw Eric Dynamite
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