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Philippa Dowding

フィリッパ・ダウディング

Firippa Daudingu

Profile

Gender
Female
Nationality
Canada
Languages
English

Career

Occupations
children's literature writer
Active Years
2014-2024
Nominations
Forest of Reading Silver Birch Award nominee (2017, Myles and the Monster Outside), Forest of Reading Silver Birch Award nominee (2020, Oculum)

Awards

Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature
2021
Work: Firefly
Category: children's literature
Organization: Governor General's Awards
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Governor General's Awards 1 appearances
  1. Edition 86 (2021) Winner
    Work: Firefly

    A middle-grade novel about a girl named Firefly who is forced to rebuild her life at her aunt’s costume shop after a traumatic night separates her from her mother.

    At her aunt’s costume shop, Firefly begins to ask what home and family mean.

    206 pages
    Children’s literaturefamilytrauma自己探求

Works

Major Works

Firefly

2021 Children's literature

A children's novel with fantastical elements that won the 2021 Governor General's Award.

Oculum

2018 Children's literature

Children's novel nominated for Silver Birch Award.

Bibliography

  • Oculum
  • Firefly
  • 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
  • The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden
  • Everton Miles is Stranger than Me

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Specializes in weird storiesMiddle-grade fiction
Recurring Motifs
Supernatural eventsMonsters

Legacy

Renowned Canadian children's author known for the Weird Stories Gone Wrong series and winner of the Governor General's Literary Award.