Philippa Dowding

Philippa Dowding is an award-winning children’s author, a poet, copywriter, and musician living in Toronto, Ontario. Her 2021 novel, Firefly, won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Children’s Literature (Text), and the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award. Her other novels for children have been nominated for numerous literary awards, including the SYRCA Diamond Willow, OLA Silver Birch and Red Maple, Hackmatack, and White Raven awards. Find more about Philippa’s books and music at pdowding.com

Books by Philippa Dowding

A thirteen-year-old girl who prefers homelessness to living with her abusive mother is sent to live with an aunt, whose costume shop helps her discover who she is, and what a family is.
Paperback
9781770865983
$13.95
In this dystopian novel for middle-grade readers, a child finds a door to an "outside" that is not supposed to exist.
Paperback
9781770865129
$12.95
As Echo1 wakes from an 83-year sleep to search for life in the wasteland, the children of Oculum flee the Unruly and their stolen weapons, desperately trying to reach the safety of MedFell Hall.
Paperback
9781770866652
$13.95
A chance meeting between Mr. Byrd and Bat at twilight — that brief window of time in which they’re both awake — begins this story of unlikely friendship. Every day over this magical summer, the duo visit the same tree branch, and come to realize they’re more alike than different.
Paperback
9781770868083
$10.95