Philippa Dowding
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Canadian author, poet and musician
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]
Weird Stories Gone Wrong series
References
- ↑ "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" Archived 2021-11-17 at the Wayback Machine. 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.
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