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Philippa Dowding is an author, poet, musician, and copywriter based in Toronto. She is the winner of the Governor General's Literary Award 2021, Young People's Literature, Text, and the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award 2022, for FIREFLY.

Philippa was a writer early in life, and began writing poetry and short stories at age nine. She studied English Language & Literature at Western University in London, Ontario, and completed an M.A. in English at The University of Toronto. Soon after graduating, she began her professional writing life as a copywriter in the magazine and newspaper industry, where she won many industry awards.

When she had a family, she began telling bedtime stories to her children. One story, about a lost gargoyle ...more

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	Firefly 4.05 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden: The Night Flyer's Handbook 3.64 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oculum (The Children of Oculum, 1) 3.91 avg rating — 155 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gargoyle at the Gates 4.20 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Myles and the Monster Outside (Weird Stories Gone Wrong #2) 4.08 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gargoyle Overhead 3.95 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carter and the Curious Maze (Weird Stories Gone Wrong #3) 3.89 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gargoyle in My Yard (Lost Gargoyle, 1) 4.06 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jake and the Giant Hand (Weird Stories Gone Wrong #1) 4.11 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alex and The Other: Weird Stories Gone Wrong (Weird Stories Gone Wrong, 4) 3.94 avg rating — 35 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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FIREFLY is Shortlisted for the SYRCA Snow Willow Award 2023-2024!

Thank you to the Saskatchewan Young Readers Choice Awards (SYRCA) for nominating FIREFLY to their wonderful Snow Willow award 2023-2024!

This means that young readers in Saskatchewan, grades 6-8, will be reading FIREFLY as part of a fabulous curated list of ten grade-appropriate books written by talented Canadian authors, and choosing their favourite for the award ceremony next spring, 2024. Th Read more of this blog post »

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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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