Philippa Dowding


Philippa Dowding is a Canadian writer of children's literature, 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.
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.

Works

Weird Stories Gone Wrong series

  • Jake and the Giant Hand
  • Myles and the Monster Outside
  • Carter and the Curious Maze
  • Alex and the Other
  • Blackwells and the Briny Deep
  • ''Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet''

Nightflyers Handbook series