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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.

1999

  • Andy Turnbull and Debora Pearson, By Truck to the North: My Winter Adventure
  • Gena K. Gorrell, Catching Fire: The Story of Firefighting
  • Barbara Greenwood, The Last Safehouse: A Story of the Underground Railroad
  • Larry Verstraete, Accidental Discoveries: From Laughing Gas to Dynamite
  • Mary Wallace, The Inuksuk Book

    • 2000

  • Simon Tookoome and Sheldon Oberman, The Shaman's Nephew: A Life in the Far North
  • Sarah Ellis, The Young Writer's Companion
  • Linda Maybarduk, The Dancer Who Flew: A Memoir of Rudolf Nureyev
  • Irene Morck, Five Pennies: A Prairie Boy's Story

    • 2001

  • Gena K. Gorrell, Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingale
  • Linda Granfield, Pier 21: Gateway of Hope
  • Ann Love and Jane Drake, The Kids Book of the Far North
  • Ronald Orenstein, New Animal Discoveries
  • Candace Savage, Born to be a Cowgirl: A Spirited Ride Through the Old West

    • 2002

  • Jack Batten, The Man Who Ran Faster Than Everyone: The Story of Tom Longboat
  • Karen Levine, Hana's Suitcase
  • Susan Musgrave, Nerves Out Loud: Critical Moments in the Lives of Seven Teen Girls
  • Jane Pavanel, The Sex Book: an alphabet of smarter love
  • John Wilson, Righting Wrongs: The Story of Norman Bethune

    • 2003

  • Larry Loyie with Constance Brissenden, As Long as the Rivers Flow
  • Kathy Conlan, Under the Ice
  • Chan Hon Goh with Cary Fagan, Beyond the Dance: A Ballerina's Life
  • Candace Savage, Wizards: An Amazing Journey through the Last Great Age of Magic
  • Roderick Stewart, Wilfrid Laurier: A Pledge for Canada

    • 2004

  • Val Ross, The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories
  • Nicolas Debon, Four Pictures by Emily Carr
  • Anne Dublin, Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything
  • Reva Marin, Oscar: The Life and Music of Oscar Peterson
  • John Wilson, Discovering the Arctic: The Story of John Rae

    • 2005

  • Shari Graydon, In Your Face: The Culture of Beauty and You
  • Hazel Hutchins, A Second Is a Hiccup
  • Marthe Jocelyn, A Home for Foundlings
  • Kathy Kacer, The Underground Reporters
  • Ange Zhang, Red Land, Yellow River: A Story from the Cultural Revolution

    • 2006

  • Bill Slavin and Jim Slavin, Transformed: How Everyday Things Are Mad
  • Deborah Ellis, Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk About AIDS
  • Nadja Halilbegovich, My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary
  • Susan Hughes, Coming to Canada: Building a Life in a New Land
  • Kathy Kacer, Hiding Edith: A True Story

    • 2007

  • Jan Thornhill, I Found a Dead Bird: The Kids’ Guide to the Cycle of Life & Death

    • 2008

  • Hugh Brewster, At Vimy Ridge: Canada's Greatest World War I Victory

    • 2009

  • Mariatu Kamara with Susan McClelland, The Bite of the Mango

    • 2010

  • Priscilla Galloway with Dawn Hunter, Adventures on the Ancient Silk Road
  • Charis Cotter, Born to Write: The Remarkable Lives of Six Famous Authors
  • Scot Ritchie, Follow That Map! A First Book of Mapping Skills
  • William Gilkerson, A Thousand Years of Pirates
  • Kathy Kacer and Sharon E. McKay. Whispers from the Ghettos

    • 2011

  • Susan Hughes, Case Closed? Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science
  • Daniel Loxton, Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be
  • Elin Kelsey, Not Your Typical Book About the Environment
  • Jody Nyasha Warner, Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged
  • Hadley Dyer, Watch This Space: Designing, Defending and Sharing Public Spaces

    • 2012

  • Susan Vande Griek,Loon
  • Rafal Gerszak with Dawn Hunter, Beyond Bullets: A Photo Journal of Afghanistan
  • Dora Lee, Biomimicry: Inventions Inspired by Nature. Illustrated by Margot Thompson. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 2011.
  • Susan Hughes, Off to Class: Incredible and Unusual Schools Around the World. Toronto: Owlkids Books Inc., 2011.
  • Marthe Jocelyn, Scribbling Women: True Tales from Astonishing Lives. Toronto: Tundra Books, 2011.

    • 2013

  • Deborah Ellis, Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely Through a Never-Ending War
  • Monica Kulling, Going Up! Elisha Otis’s Trip to the Top
  • Martin Springett, Kate & Pippin: An Unlikely Love Story
  • Bill Swan, Real Justice: Fourteen and Sentenced to Death – The Story of Steven Truscott
  • Deborah Hodge, Rescuing the Children: The Story of the Kindertransport.

    • 2014

  • Rona Arato, The Last Train: A Holocaust Story
  • Ken Setterington, Branded by the Pink Triangle
  • Elizabeth Macleod and Frieda Wishinsky, A History of Just About Everything: 180 Events, People and Inventions That Changed the World
  • Deborah Ellis, Looks Like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous Kids
  • Eric Walters, My Name Is Blessing

    • 2015

  • Kira Vermond, Why We Live Where We Live
  • Hugh Brewster, From Vimy to Victory: Canada’s Fight to the Finish in World War I
  • David J. Smith, If: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers
  • Larry Loyie with Wayne K. Spear and Constance Brissenden, Residential Schools, With the Words and Images of Survivors: A National History
  • Sarah Elton. Starting from Scratch: What You Should Know about Food and Cooking

    • 2016

  • Cory Silverberg, Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book About Bodies, Feelings, and You
  • Edward Keenan, The Art of the Possible: An Everyday Guide to Politics
  • Maria Birmingham, A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality: From Alchemy to Avatars
  • Jessica Dee Humphreys and Michel Chikwanine, Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War
  • Paula Ayer, Foodprints: The Story of What We Eat

    • References

    Norma Fleck Award Wikipedia
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