Philippa Dowding

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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]

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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]

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Weird Stories Gone Wrong series

Nightflyers Handbook series

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