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Philippa Dowding is a Canadian writer of children's literature, whose novel ''
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'' was the winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature at the
2021 Governor General's Awards The shortlisted nominees for the 2021 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 14, 2021, and the winners were announced on November 17.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 The Lampyridae are a family of elateroid beetles with more than 2,000 described species, many of which are light-emitting. They are soft-bodied beetles commonly called fireflies, lightning bugs, or glowworms for their conspicuous production ...
'' (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)"The In Character Interview, with Philippa Dowding"
''Open Book'', December 15, 2016.


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* 21st-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian women novelists Canadian women children's writers Governor General's Award-winning children's writers Writers from Toronto Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-writer-stub