The Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction is a lucrative literary award founded in May 1999 by the Fleck Family Foundation and the Canadian Children's Book Centre, and presented to the year's best non-fiction book for a youth audience. Each year's winner receives CDN$10,000.
The award is one of several presented by the Canadian Children's Book Centre each year; others include the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award.[1]
The award was discontinued after 2023, with a new Sharon Fitzhenry Award for Children's Nonfiction to be presented beginning in 2025.
Awards and winners
edit| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Andy Turnbull and Debora Pearson | By Truck to the North: My Winter Adventure | Winner | |
| Gena K. Gorrell | Catching Fire: The Story of Firefighting | Finalist | ||
| Barbara Greenwood | The Last Safehouse: A Story of the Underground Railroad | Finalist | ||
| Larry Verstraete | Accidental Discoveries: From Laughing Gas to Dynamite | Finalist | ||
| Mary Wallace | The Inuksuk Book | Finalist | ||
| 2000 | Simon Tookoome and Sheldon Oberman | The Shaman's Nephew: A Life in the Far North | Winner | |
| Sarah Ellis | The Young Writer's Companion | Finalist | ||
| Linda Maybarduk | The Dancer Who Flew: A Memoir of Rudolf Nureyev | Finalist | ||
| Irene Morck | Five Pennies: A Prairie Boy's Story | Finalist | ||
| 2001 | Gena K. Gorrell | Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingale | Winner | |
| Linda Granfield | Pier 21: Gateway of Hope | Finalist | ||
| Ann Love and Jane Drake | The Kids Book of the Far North | Finalist | ||
| Ronald Orenstein | New Animal Discoveries | Finalist | ||
| Candace Savage | Born to be a Cowgirl: A Spirited Ride Through the Old West | Finalist | ||
| 2002 | Jack Batten | The Man Who Ran Faster Than Everyone: The Story of Tom Longboat | Winner | |
| Karen Levine | Hana's Suitcase | Finalist | ||
| Susan Musgrave | Nerves Out Loud: Critical Moments in the Lives of Seven Teen Girls | Finalist | ||
| Jane Pavanel | The Sex Book: An Alphabet of Smarter Love | Finalist | ||
| John Wilson | Righting Wrongs: The Story of Norman Bethune | Finalist | ||
| 2003 | Larry Loyie with Constance Brissenden | As Long as the Rivers Flow | Winner | |
| Kathy Conlan | Under the Ice | Finalist | ||
| Chan Hon Goh with Cary Fagan | Beyond the Dance: A Ballerina's Life | Finalist | ||
| Candace Savage | Wizards: An Amazing Journey through the Last Great Age of Magic | Finalist | ||
| Roderick Stewart | Wilfrid Laurier: A Pledge for Canada | Finalist | ||
| 2004 | Val Ross | The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories | Winner | |
| Nicolas Debon | Four Pictures by Emily Carr | Finalist | ||
| Anne Dublin | Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything | Finalist | ||
| Reva Marin | Oscar: The Life and Music of Oscar Peterson | Finalist | ||
| John Wilson | Discovering the Arctic: The Story of John Rae | Finalist | ||
| 2005 | Shari Graydon | In Your Face: The Culture of Beauty and You | Winner | |
| Hazel Hutchins | A Second Is a Hiccup | Finalist | ||
| Marthe Jocelyn | A Home for Foundlings | Finalist | ||
| Kathy Kacer | The Underground Reporters | Finalist | ||
| Ange Zhang | Red Land, Yellow River: A Story from the Cultural Revolution | Finalist | ||
| 2006 | Bill Slavin and Jim Slavin | Transformed: How Everyday Things Are Mad | Winner | |
| Deborah Ellis | Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk About AIDS | Finalist | ||
| Nadja Halilbegovich | My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary | Finalist | ||
| Susan Hughes | Coming to Canada: Building a Life in a New Land | Finalist | ||
| Kathy Kacer | Hiding Edith: A True Story | Finalist | ||
| 2007 | Jan Thornhill | I Found a Dead Bird: The Kids' Guide to the Cycle of Life & Death | Winner | |
| Barbara Greenwood | Factory Girl | Finalist | ||
| Celia Godkin | Fire! The Renewal of a Forest | Finalist | ||
| Jane Springer | Genocide | Finalist | ||
| Herb Shoveller | Ryan and Jimmy: And the Well in Africa That Brought Them Together | Finalist | ||
| 2008 | Hugh Brewster | At Vimy Ridge: Canada's Greatest World War I Victory | Winner | |
| Robert Bateman with Nancy Kovacs, illus. by Robert Bateman | Birds of Prey: An Introduction | Finalist | ||
| Sue Ann Alderson, illus. by Millie Ballance | The Eco-Diary of Kiran Singer | Finalist | ||
| Jan Thornhill | This Is My Planet: The Kids' Guide to Global Warming | Finalist | ||
| Kate Evans | Weird Weather: Everything You Didn't Want to Know About Climate Change but Probably Should Find Out | Finalist | ||
| 2009 | Mariatu Kamara with Susan McClelland | The Bite of the Mango | Winner | |
| Mary Wallace | Inuksuk Journey: An Artist at the Top of the World | Finalist | ||
| Susan Hughes, illus. by Willow Dawson | No Girls Allowed: Tales of Daring Women Dressed As Men for Love, Freedom and Adventure | Finalist | ||
| Katie Smith Milway, illus. by Eugenie Fernandes | One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference | Finalist | ||
| Elizabeth MacLeod | Royal Murder: The Deadly Intrigue of Ten Sovereigns | Finalist | ||
| 2010 | Priscilla Galloway with Dawn Hunter | Adventures on the Ancient Silk Road | Winner | [3] |
| Charis Cotter | Born to Write: The Remarkable Lives of Six Famous Authors | Finalist | ||
| William Gilkerson | A Thousand Years of Pirates | Finalist | ||
| Kathy Kacer and Sharon E. McKay | Whispers from the Ghettos | Finalist | ||
| Scot Ritchie | Follow That Map! A First Book of Mapping Skills | Finalist | ||
| 2011 | Susan Hughes | Case Closed? Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science | Winner | |
| Hadley Dyer | Watch This Space: Designing, Defending and Sharing Public Spaces | Finalist | ||
| Elin Kelsey | Not Your Typical Book About the Environment | Finalist | ||
| Daniel Loxton | Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be | Finalist | ||
| Jody Nyasha Warner | Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged | Finalist | ||
| 2012 | Susan Vande Griek | Loon | Winner | |
| Rafal Gerszak with Dawn Hunter | Beyond Bullets: A Photo Journal of Afghanistan | Finalist | [4] | |
| Susan Hughes | Off to Class: Incredible and Unusual Schools Around the World | Finalist | [4] | |
| Marthe Jocelyn | Scribbling Women: True Tales from Astonishing Lives | Finalist | [4] | |
| Dora Lee, illus. by Margot Thompson | Biomimicry: Inventions Inspired by Nature | Finalist | [4] | |
| 2013 | Deborah Ellis | Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely Through a Never-Ending War | Winner | |
| Deborah Hodge | Rescuing the Children: The Story of the Kindertransport | Finalist | ||
| Monica Kulling | Going Up! Elisha Otis's Trip to the Top | Finalist | ||
| Bill Swan | Real Justice: Fourteen and Sentenced to Death – The Story of Steven Truscott | Finalist | ||
| 2014 | Rona Arato | The Last Train: A Holocaust Story | Winner | |
| Deborah Ellis | Looks Like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous Kids | Finalist | ||
| Elizabeth Macleod and Frieda Wishinsky | A History of Just About Everything: 180 Events, People and Inventions That Changed the World | Finalist | ||
| Ken Setterington | Branded by the Pink Triangle | Finalist | ||
| Eric Walters | My Name Is Blessing | Finalist | ||
| 2015 | Kira Vermond | Why We Live Where We Live | Winner | |
| Hugh Brewster | From Vimy to Victory: Canada's Fight to the Finish in World War I | Finalist | [5] | |
| Sarah Elton | Starting from Scratch: What You Should Know about Food and Cooking | Finalist | [5] | |
| Larry Loyie with Wayne K. Spear and Constance Brissenden | Residential Schools, With the Words and Images of Survivors: A National History | Finalist | [5] | |
| David J. Smith | If: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers | Finalist | [5] | |
| 2016 | Cory Silverberg | Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book About Bodies, Feelings, and You | Winner | [6] |
| Paula Ayer | Foodprints: The Story of What We Eat | Finalist | ||
| Maria Birmingham | A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: From Alchemy to Avatars | Finalist | ||
| Jessica Dee Humphreys and Michel Chikwanine | Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War | Finalist | ||
| Edward Keenan | The Art of the Possible: An Everyday Guide to Politics | Finalist | ||
| 2017 | Elizabeth Macleod | Canada Year by Year | Winner | |
| Antonia Banyard and Paula Ayer | Water Wow! An Infographic Exploration | Finalist | ||
| Kristina Rutherford | Level the Playing Field: The Past, Present, a Future of Women's Pro Sports | Finalist | ||
| Laura Scandiffio | Fight to Learn: The Struggle to Go to School | Finalist | ||
| Jan Thornhill | The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk | Finalist | ||
| 2018 | Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale | #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women | Winner | |
| Jane Drake and Ann Love | Rewilding: Giving Nature a Second Chance | Finalist | ||
| Sarah Elton | Meatless? A Fresh Look at What You Eat | Finalist | ||
| James Gladstone | When Planet Earth Was New | Finalist | ||
| Hetxw'ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson) | The Sockeye Mother | Finalist | ||
| 2019 | James Gladstone and Karen Reczuch | Turtle Pond | Winner | [7] |
| Erica Fyvie and Bill Slavin | Trash Revolution: Breaking the Waste Cycle | Finalist | [8] | |
| Wab Kinew and Joe Morse | Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes | Finalist | [8] | |
| Rob Laidlaw | Bat Citizen: Defending the Ninjas of the Night | Finalist | [8] | |
| Merrie-Ellen Wilcox | After Life: Ways We Think About Death | Finalist | [8] | |
| 2020 | Serah-Marie McMahon and Alison Matthews David | Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed, & Murdered Through History | Winner | |
| Carolyn Fisher | Cells: An Owner's Handbook | Finalist | [9] | |
| Carey Newman and Kirstie Hudson | Picking Up the Pieces: Residential School Memories and the Making of the Witness Blanket | Finalist | [9] | |
| Rachel Poliquin | Beastly Puzzles: A Brain-Boggling Animal Guessing Game | Finalist | [9] | |
| Ashley Spires | Fairy Science | Finalist | [9] | |
| 2021 | Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane | Powwow: A Celebration Through Song and Dance | Winner | |
| Hetxw'ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson), illus. by Natasha Donovan | The Eagle Mother | Finalist | ||
| Tanya Lloyd Kyi, illus. by Drew Shannon | This Is Your Brain on Stereotypes: How Science is Tackling Unconscious Bias | Finalist | ||
| Rina Singh, illus. by Marianne Ferrer | 111 Trees: How One Village Celebrates the Birth of Every Girl | Finalist | ||
| Kyla Vanderklug | Crows: Genius Birds | Finalist | ||
| 2022 | Christian Allaire, illus. by Jacqueline Li | The Power of Style: How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim Cultures | Winner | [10] |
| Erica Fyvie, illus. by Ian Turner | Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads | Finalist | [11] | |
| Dr. Lindsay Herriot and Kate Fry (ed.) | Growing Up Trans: In Our Own Words | Finalist | [11] | |
| Kathy Stinson, illus. by François Thisdale | The Girl Who Loved Giraffes and Became the World's First Giraffologist | Finalist | [11] | |
| Robbie Waisman with Susan McClelland | Boy from Buchenwald: The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor | Finalist | [11] | |
| 2023 | Carey Newman and Kirstie Hudson | The Witness Blanket: Truth, Art and Reconciliation | Winner | [12] |
| Tanya Lloyd Kyi and Julia Kyi, illus. by Vivian Rosas | Better Connected: How Girls Are Using Social Media for Good | Finalist | [13] | |
| Elise Gravel with Mykaell Blais, illus. by Elise Gravel | Pink, Blue, and You! Questions for Kids About Gender Stereotypes | Finalist | ||
| Laura Alary, illus. by Andrea Blinick | Sun in my Tummy | Finalist | ||
| Gregor Craigie, illus. by Kathleen Fu | Why Humans Build Up: The Rise of Towers, Temples and Skyscrapers | Finalist |
References
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- ^ a b c d Hunter, Emma (2020-09-15). "The 2020 Shortlists for the Canadian Children's Book Centre Book Awards Celebrate the Best in Canadian Books for Young People". Canadian Children's Book Centre. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
- ^ "The 2022 CCBC Book Awards Celebrate Excellence in Literature for Young People". The Canadian Children's Book Centre. September 29, 2022. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
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