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[edit]

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

Weird Stories Gone Wrong series[edit]

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[edit]

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

References[edit]

^ "28 Canadian middle-grade books coming out in spring 2021". CBC Books, March 25, 2021.
^ "Inuk author Norma Dunning wins $25K Governor General's fiction prize". Coast Reporter, November 17, 2021.
^ "Here are the 2020 Silver Birch Fiction Award finalists: 10 great Canadian books for readers in Grades 3-6". CBC Books, June 4, 2020.
^ Caitlyn Paxson, "Oculum, by Philippa Dowding / Pulse Point, by Colleen Nelson, Nancy Chappell-Pollack". Quill & Quire, July 2018.
^ Stephanie Johnson, "Firefly". Canadian Review of Materials, April 16, 2021.
^ Lisa Rainford, "Children’s author Philippa Dowding to read from Jake and the Giant Hand". Toronto.com, October 21, 2014.
^ "Myles and the Monster Outside". Kirkus Reviews, June 29, 2015.
^ "Carter and the Curious Maze". Kirkus Reviews, August 30, 2016.
^ Sally Lodge and Shannon Maughan, "Spring 2018 Children's Announcements: Publishers A-F". Publishers Weekly, January 26, 2018.
^ "Blackwells and the Briny Deep". Kirkus Reviews, June 25, 2018.
^ Teresa Iaizzo, "Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet". Canadian Review of Materials, May 8, 2020.
^ Emily Donaldson, "The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden, by Philippa Dowding". Quill & Quire, January 2014.
^ "The In Character Interview, with Philippa Dowding". Open Book, December 15, 2016.

External links[edit]

Official website

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[1] "28 Canadian middle-grade books coming out in spring 2021". CBC Books, March 25, 2021.

[2] "Inuk author Norma Dunning wins $25K Governor General's fiction prize". Coast Reporter, November 17, 2021.

[3] "Here are the 2020 Silver Birch Fiction Award finalists: 10 great Canadian books for readers in Grades 3-6". CBC Books, June 4, 2020.

[4] Caitlyn Paxson, "Oculum, by Philippa Dowding / Pulse Point, by Colleen Nelson, Nancy Chappell-Pollack". Quill & Quire, July 2018.

[5] Stephanie Johnson, "Firefly". Canadian Review of Materials, April 16, 2021.

[6] Lisa Rainford, "Children’s author Philippa Dowding to read from Jake and the Giant Hand". Toronto.com, October 21, 2014.

[7] "Myles and the Monster Outside". Kirkus Reviews, June 29, 2015.

[8] "Carter and the Curious Maze". Kirkus Reviews, August 30, 2016.

[9] Sally Lodge and Shannon Maughan, "Spring 2018 Children's Announcements: Publishers A-F". Publishers Weekly, January 26, 2018.

[10] "Blackwells and the Briny Deep". Kirkus Reviews, June 25, 2018.

[11] Teresa Iaizzo, "Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet". Canadian Review of Materials, May 8, 2020.

[12] Emily Donaldson, "The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden, by Philippa Dowding". Quill & Quire, January 2014.

[13] "The In Character Interview, with Philippa Dowding". Open Book, December 15, 2016.

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v t e Winners of the Governor General's Award for young people's literature — text
1980s	Morgan Nyberg, Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army (1987) Welwyn Wilton Katz, The Third Magic (1988) Diana Wieler, Bad Boy (1989)
1990s	Michael Bedard, Redwork (1990) Sarah Ellis, Pick-Up Sticks (1991) Julie Johnston, Hero of Lesser Causes (1992) Tim Wynne-Jones, Some of the Kinder Planets (1993) Julie Johnston, Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me (1994) Tim Wynne-Jones, The Maestro (1995) Paul Yee, Ghost Train (1996) Kit Pearson, Awake and Dreaming (1997) Janet Lunn, The Hollow Tree (1998) Rachna Gilmore, A Screaming Kind of Day (1999)
2000s	Deborah Ellis, Looking for X (2000) Arthur Slade, Dust (2001) Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl (2002) Glen Huser, Stitches (2003) Kenneth Oppel, Airborn (2004) Pamela Porter, The Crazy Man (2005) William Gilkerson, Pirate's Passage (2006) Iain Lawrence, Gemini Summer (2007) John Ibbitson, The Landing (2008) Caroline Pignat, Greener Grass: The Famine Years (2009)
2010s	Wendy Phillips, Fishtailing (2010) Christopher Moore, From Then to Now: A Short History of the World (2011) Susin Nielsen, The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen (2012) Teresa Toten, The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B (2013) Raziel Reid, When Everything Feels Like the Movies (2014) Caroline Pignat, The Gospel Truth (2015) Martine Leavitt, Calvin (2016) Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves (2017) Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster (2018) Erin Bow, Stand on the Sky (2019)
2020s	Eric Walters, The King of Jam Sandwiches (2020) Philippa Dowding, Firefly (2021) Jen Ferguson, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet (2022) Sarah Everett, The Probability of Everything (2023)