Philippa Dowding

Philippa Dowding is a Canadian writer of children's literature,^[1] whose novel Firefly was the winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature at the 2021 Governor General's Awards.^[2]

She has also been a four-time nominee for Forest of Reading's Silver Birch Awards, receiving nods in 2017 for Myles and the Monster Outside and in 2020 for Oculum.^[3]

Works

• Oculum (2018)^[4]
• Firefly (2021)^[5]

Weird Stories Gone Wrong series

• Jake and the Giant Hand (2014)^[6]
• Myles and the Monster Outside (2015)^[7]
• Carter and the Curious Maze (2016)^[8]
• Alex and the Other (2018)^[9]
• Blackwells and the Briny Deep (2018)^[10]
• Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet (2019)^[11]

Nightflyers Handbook series

• The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden (2014)^[12]
• Everton Miles is Stranger than Me (2016)^[13]