Norma Fleck Award

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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.

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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

Norma Fleck Award winners and finalists [2]
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
1999 Andy Turnbull and Debora PearsonBy Truck to the North: My Winter AdventureWinner
Gena K. Gorrell Catching Fire: The Story of FirefightingFinalist
Barbara Greenwood The Last Safehouse: A Story of the Underground RailroadFinalist
Larry Verstraete Accidental Discoveries: From Laughing Gas to DynamiteFinalist
Mary WallaceThe Inuksuk BookFinalist
2000 Simon Tookoome and Sheldon Oberman The Shaman's Nephew: A Life in the Far NorthWinner
Sarah Ellis The Young Writer's CompanionFinalist
Linda Maybarduk The Dancer Who Flew: A Memoir of Rudolf NureyevFinalist
Irene Morck Five Pennies: A Prairie Boy's StoryFinalist
2001 Gena K. Gorrell Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence NightingaleWinner
Linda Granfield Pier 21: Gateway of HopeFinalist
Ann Love and Jane Drake The Kids Book of the Far NorthFinalist
Ronald Orenstein New Animal DiscoveriesFinalist
Candace Savage Born to be a Cowgirl: A Spirited Ride Through the Old WestFinalist
2002 Jack Batten The Man Who Ran Faster Than Everyone: The Story of Tom LongboatWinner
Karen Levine Hana's SuitcaseFinalist
Susan Musgrave Nerves Out Loud: Critical Moments in the Lives of Seven Teen GirlsFinalist
Jane Pavanel The Sex Book: An Alphabet of Smarter LoveFinalist
John WilsonRighting Wrongs: The Story of Norman BethuneFinalist
2003 Larry Loyie with Constance Brissenden As Long as the Rivers FlowWinner
Kathy Conlan Under the IceFinalist
Chan Hon Goh with Cary Fagan Beyond the Dance: A Ballerina's LifeFinalist
Candace Savage Wizards: An Amazing Journey through the Last Great Age of MagicFinalist
Roderick StewartWilfrid Laurier: A Pledge for CanadaFinalist
2004 Val Ross The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their StoriesWinner
Nicolas Debon Four Pictures by Emily CarrFinalist
Anne Dublin Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do EverythingFinalist
Reva Marin Oscar: The Life and Music of Oscar PetersonFinalist
John WilsonDiscovering the Arctic: The Story of John RaeFinalist
2005 Shari Graydon In Your Face: The Culture of Beauty and YouWinner
Hazel Hutchins A Second Is a HiccupFinalist
Marthe Jocelyn A Home for FoundlingsFinalist
Kathy Kacer The Underground ReportersFinalist
Ange Zhang Red Land, Yellow River: A Story from the Cultural RevolutionFinalist
2006 Bill Slavin and Jim SlavinTransformed: How Everyday Things Are MadWinner
Deborah Ellis Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk About AIDSFinalist
Nadja Halilbegovich My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary Finalist
Susan Hughes Coming to Canada: Building a Life in a New LandFinalist
Kathy Kacer Hiding Edith: A True StoryFinalist
2007 Jan Thornhill I Found a Dead Bird: The Kids' Guide to the Cycle of Life & DeathWinner
Barbara Greenwood Factory GirlFinalist
Celia Godkin Fire! The Renewal of a ForestFinalist
Jane Springer GenocideFinalist
Herb Shoveller Ryan and Jimmy: And the Well in Africa That Brought Them TogetherFinalist
2008 Hugh Brewster At Vimy Ridge: Canada's Greatest World War I VictoryWinner
Robert Bateman with Nancy Kovacs, illus. by Robert Bateman Birds of Prey: An IntroductionFinalist
Sue Ann Alderson , illus. by Millie Ballance The Eco-Diary of Kiran SingerFinalist
Jan Thornhill This Is My Planet: The Kids' Guide to Global WarmingFinalist
Kate Evans Weird Weather: Everything You Didn't Want to Know About Climate Change but Probably Should Find OutFinalist
2009 Mariatu Kamara with Susan McClelland The Bite of the MangoWinner
Mary WallaceInuksuk Journey: An Artist at the Top of the WorldFinalist
Susan Hughes , illus. by Willow Dawson No Girls Allowed: Tales of Daring Women Dressed As Men for Love, Freedom and AdventureFinalist
Katie Smith Milway , illus. by Eugenie Fernandes One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big DifferenceFinalist
Elizabeth MacLeod Royal Murder: The Deadly Intrigue of Ten SovereignsFinalist
2010 Priscilla Galloway with Dawn Hunter Adventures on the Ancient Silk RoadWinner [3]
Charis Cotter Born to Write: The Remarkable Lives of Six Famous AuthorsFinalist
William Gilkerson A Thousand Years of PiratesFinalist
Kathy Kacer and Sharon E. McKay Whispers from the GhettosFinalist
Scot Ritchie Follow That Map! A First Book of Mapping SkillsFinalist
2011 Susan Hughes Case Closed? Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern ScienceWinner
Hadley Dyer Watch This Space: Designing, Defending and Sharing Public SpacesFinalist
Elin Kelsey Not Your Typical Book About the EnvironmentFinalist
Daniel Loxton Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to BeFinalist
Jody Nyasha Warner Viola Desmond Won't Be BudgedFinalist
2012 Susan Vande Griek LoonWinner
Rafal Gerszak with Dawn Hunter Beyond Bullets: A Photo Journal of AfghanistanFinalist [4]
Susan Hughes Off to Class: Incredible and Unusual Schools Around the WorldFinalist [4]
Marthe Jocelyn Scribbling Women: True Tales from Astonishing LivesFinalist [4]
Dora Lee , illus. by Margot Thompson Biomimicry: Inventions Inspired by NatureFinalist [4]
2013 Deborah Ellis Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely Through a Never-Ending WarWinner
Deborah Hodge Rescuing the Children: The Story of the KindertransportFinalist
Monica Kulling Going Up! Elisha Otis's Trip to the TopFinalist
Bill Swan Real Justice: Fourteen and Sentenced to Death – The Story of Steven TruscottFinalist
2014 Rona Arato The Last Train: A Holocaust StoryWinner
Deborah Ellis Looks Like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous KidsFinalist
Elizabeth Macleod and Frieda Wishinsky A History of Just About Everything: 180 Events, People and Inventions That Changed the WorldFinalist
Ken Setterington Branded by the Pink TriangleFinalist
Eric Walters My Name Is BlessingFinalist
2015 Kira Vermond Why We Live Where We LiveWinner
Hugh Brewster From Vimy to Victory: Canada's Fight to the Finish in World War IFinalist [5]
Sarah Elton Starting from Scratch: What You Should Know about Food and CookingFinalist [5]
Larry Loyie with Wayne K. Spear and Constance Brissenden Residential Schools, With the Words and Images of Survivors: A National HistoryFinalist [5]
David J. Smith If: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and NumbersFinalist [5]
2016 Cory Silverberg Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book About Bodies, Feelings, and YouWinner [6]
Paula Ayer Foodprints: The Story of What We EatFinalist
Maria Birmingham A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: From Alchemy to AvatarsFinalist
Jessica Dee Humphreys and Michel Chikwanine Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in WarFinalist
Edward KeenanThe Art of the Possible: An Everyday Guide to PoliticsFinalist
2017 Elizabeth Macleod Canada Year by YearWinner
Antonia Banyard and Paula Ayer Water Wow! An Infographic ExplorationFinalist
Kristina Rutherford Level the Playing Field: The Past, Present, a Future of Women's Pro SportsFinalist
Laura Scandiffio Fight to Learn: The Struggle to Go to SchoolFinalist
Jan Thornhill The Tragic Tale of the Great AukFinalist
2018 Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American WomenWinner
Jane Drake and Ann Love Rewilding: Giving Nature a Second ChanceFinalist
Sarah Elton Meatless? A Fresh Look at What You EatFinalist
James GladstoneWhen Planet Earth Was NewFinalist
Hetxw'ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson)The Sockeye MotherFinalist
2019 James Gladstone and Karen Reczuch Turtle PondWinner [7]
Erica Fyvie and Bill Slavin Trash Revolution: Breaking the Waste CycleFinalist [8]
Wab Kinew and Joe Morse Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous HeroesFinalist [8]
Rob Laidlaw Bat Citizen: Defending the Ninjas of the NightFinalist [8]
Merrie-Ellen Wilcox After Life: Ways We Think About DeathFinalist [8]
2020 Serah-Marie McMahon and Alison Matthews David Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed, & Murdered Through HistoryWinner
Carolyn Fisher Cells: An Owner's HandbookFinalist [9]
Carey Newman and Kirstie Hudson Picking Up the Pieces: Residential School Memories and the Making of the Witness BlanketFinalist [9]
Rachel Poliquin Beastly Puzzles: A Brain-Boggling Animal Guessing GameFinalist [9]
Ashley Spires Fairy ScienceFinalist [9]
2021 Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane Powwow: A Celebration Through Song and DanceWinner
Hetxw'ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson), illus. by Natasha Donovan The Eagle MotherFinalist
Tanya Lloyd Kyi , illus. by Drew Shannon This Is Your Brain on Stereotypes: How Science is Tackling Unconscious BiasFinalist
Rina Singh , illus. by Marianne Ferrer 111 Trees: How One Village Celebrates the Birth of Every GirlFinalist
Kyla Vanderklug Crows: Genius BirdsFinalist
2022 Christian Allaire , illus. by Jacqueline LiThe Power of Style: How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim CulturesWinner [10]
Erica Fyvie , illus. by Ian TurnerMad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our HeadsFinalist [11]
Dr. Lindsay Herriot and Kate Fry (ed.)Growing Up Trans: In Our Own WordsFinalist [11]
Kathy Stinson , illus. by François Thisdale The Girl Who Loved Giraffes and Became the World's First GiraffologistFinalist [11]
Robbie Waisman with Susan McClellandBoy from Buchenwald: The True Story of a Holocaust SurvivorFinalist [11]
2023 Carey Newman and Kirstie HudsonThe Witness Blanket: Truth, Art and ReconciliationWinner [12]
Tanya Lloyd Kyi and Julia Kyi, illus. by Vivian RosasBetter Connected: How Girls Are Using Social Media for GoodFinalist [13]
Elise Gravel with Mykaell Blais, illus. by Elise GravelPink, Blue, and You! Questions for Kids About Gender StereotypesFinalist
Laura Alary, illus. by Andrea BlinickSun in my TummyFinalist
Gregor Craigie, illus. by Kathleen FuWhy Humans Build Up: The Rise of Towers, Temples and SkyscrapersFinalist

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