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 Young People’s Literature — Text and the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award. Her other novels for children have been nominated for numerous literary awards, including the SYRCA Snow Willow, OLA Silver Birch and Red Maple, Hackmatack, and White Ravens awards. Find more about Philippa’s books and music at pdowding.com

Books by Philippa Dowding

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.
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