Norma Fleck Award

The Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction is a lucrative literary award founded in May 1999 by the 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]

Awards and winners[]

1999[]

• and , 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
• , Accidental Discoveries: From Laughing Gas to Dynamite
• , 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
• , The Dancer Who Flew: A Memoir of Rudolf Nureyev
• , Five Pennies: A Prairie Boy's Story

2001[]

• , Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingale
• , Pier 21: Gateway of Hope
• and , The Kids Book of the Far North
• , New Animal Discoveries
• Candace Savage, Born to be a Cowgirl: A Spirited Ride Through the Old West

2002[]

• , 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
• , The Sex Book: an alphabet of smarter love
• John Wilson, Righting Wrongs: The Story of Norman Bethune

2003[]

• Larry Loyie with , As Long as the Rivers Flow
• , 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
• , Wilfrid Laurier: A Pledge for Canada

2004[]

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

2005[]

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

2006[]

• 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[]

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

2009[]

• Mariatu Kamara with , The Bite of the Mango

2010[]

• Priscilla Galloway with , 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[]

• , 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

2017[]

• Elizabeth MacLeod, Canada Year by Year
• Laura Scandiffio, Fight to Learn: The Struggle to Go to School
• Kristina Rutherford, Level the Playing Field: The Past, Present, a Future of Women’s Pro Sports
• Jan Thornhill, The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk
• Antonia Banyard and Paula Ayer, Water Wow! An Infographic Exploration

2018[]

• Lisa Charleyboy and , #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women
• Sarah Elton, Meatless? A Fresh Look at What You Eat
• Hetxw’ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson), The Sockeye Mother
• Jane Drake and Ann Love. Rewilding: Giving Nature a Second Chance
• James Gladstone, When Planet Earth Was New

2019[]

• James Gladstone and Karen Reczuch, Turtle Pond.
• Merrie-Ellen Wilcox, After Life: Ways We Think About Death
• Rob Laidlaw, Bat Citizen: Defending the Ninjas of the Night
• Wab Kinew and Joe Morse, Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes
• Erica Fyvie snd Bill Slavin, Trash Revolution: Breaking the Waste Cycle

2020[]

• Serah-Marie McMahon and Alison Matthews David, Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed, & Murdered Through History

• Rachel Poliquin, Beastly Puzzles: A Brain-Boggling Animal Guessing Game
• Carolyn Fisher, Cells: An Owner’s Handbook
• Ashley Spires, Fairy Science
• Carey Newman and Kirstie Hudson, Picking Up the Pieces: Residential School Memories and the Making of the Witness Blanket

References[]

External links[]

• Norma Fleck Award – Canadian Children's Book Centre website