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Being Children’s Laureate
Cressida talks about her time as Children’s Laureate
  1. Being Children’s Laureate
    05:08
    Being Children’s Laureate
  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. There’s Nothing Cuter Than A Puppy
    06:17
    There’s Nothing Cuter Than A Puppy
  10. Questions from schools
    05:22
    Questions from schools
  11. Slugs and Brain Pâté
    11:48
    Slugs and Brain Pâté
  12. Dragonese
    01:19
    Dragonese
  13. Brian’s writing and favourite books
    04:33
    Brian’s writing and favourite books
  14. Why comics matter
    06:03
    Why comics matter
  15. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  16. Questions from schools
    05:21
    Questions from schools
  17. Daisy on the Outer Line
    02:34
    Daisy on the Outer Line
  18. Writing historical fiction
    03:58
    Writing historical fiction
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