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Award-winning children's author, poet, musician, copywriter. Philippa's books have been nominated and commended for literary awards across Canada, the U.S. and Europe, including the Diamond Willow, Hackmatack, Silver Birch Express, Red Cedar and Red Maple awards. Her third book, The Gargoyle at the Gates, was named a White Raven Book, by the International Youth Library in Munich.

In 2017, her middle-grade horror story Myles and the Monster Outside won the OLA Silver Birch Express Honour Book Award! In 2018, she published three books for middle-grade readers: Alex and The Other, Blackwells and the Briny Deep, and her classic science fiction, middle-grade dystopia, OCULUM.

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Alex and The Other Weird Stories Gone Wrong by Philippa Dowding

Love a good evil twin horror story? Resource Links magazine has named Alex and The Other as one of The Year's Best Books 2018!

Thank you, what an honour! It's a terrific list, with books from Eric Walters, Rachelle Delaney, Heather Smith, Cary Fagan, Arthur Slade and more great Canadian kid's authors.

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“You -have- to love your monster.”
― Philippa Dowding, Everton Miles Is Stranger Than Me: The Night Flyer's Handbook

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“If I had my life to live over again, I would focus on the getting and eating of ice cream.”
― Bob Odenkirk, A Load of Hooey

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“I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.”
― Leonard Bernstein

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“Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.”
― E.B. White

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“You -have- to love your monster.”
― Philippa Dowding, Everton Miles Is Stranger Than Me: The Night Flyer's Handbook

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