About Philippa Dowding
Born 1963. Philippa Dowding is a children's writer, novelist and writer.
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 Oculum (2018) Firefly (2021)
Weird Stories Gone Wrong series Jake and the Giant Hand (2014) Myles and the Monster Outside (2015) Carter and the Curious Maze (2016) Alex and the Other (2018) Blackwells and the Briny Deep (2018) Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet (2019)
Nightflyers Handbook series The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden (2014) Everton Miles is Stranger than Me (2016)
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Who is Philippa Dowding?
Canadian author, poet and musician
When was Philippa Dowding born?
Philippa Dowding was born on 30 August 1963.
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Philippa Dowding is a children's writer, novelist and writer.
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