Audio & Video
Introducing The Black Flamingo
Dean describes his novel in verse, The Black Flamingo.
- Introducing The Black Flamingo
- Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
- Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
- Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
- Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
- Translating into Gaelic
- Discovering New Words
- Favourite Scots Words
- Introducing Wain
- Books and confidence
- Where The Heart Should Be
- How to Train Your Dragon reading
- Pupils' questions
- Self-Defence
- Themes of The Infinite
- The real world and the fictional world
- Start with a face
- Alastair’s influences