Norma Fleck Award
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Template:Short description 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.<ref name=cbc>"Sask., Man. writers win for children's books". cbc.ca, November 11, 2010.</ref>
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
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| 1999 | Template:Sortname and Debora Pearson | By Truck to the North: My Winter Adventure | Winner | |
| Template:Sortname | Catching Fire: The Story of Firefighting | Finalist | ||
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| Template:Sortname | Accidental Discoveries: From Laughing Gas to Dynamite | Finalist | ||
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| 2000 | Template:Sortname and Sheldon Oberman | Template:Sort | Winner | |
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| Template:Sortname | Five Pennies: A Prairie Boy's Story | Finalist | ||
| 2001 | Template:Sortname | Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingale | Winner | |
| Template:Sortname | Pier 21: Gateway of Hope | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname and Jane Drake | Template:Sort | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | New Animal Discoveries | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Born to be a Cowgirl: A Spirited Ride Through the Old West | Finalist | ||
| 2002 | Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | Winner | |
| Template:Sortname | Hana's Suitcase | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Nerves Out Loud: Critical Moments in the Lives of Seven Teen Girls | Finalist | ||
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| Template:Sortname | Righting Wrongs: The Story of Norman Bethune | Finalist | ||
| 2003 | Template:Sortname with Constance Brissenden | As Long as the Rivers Flow | Winner | |
| Template:Sortname | Under the Ice | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname with Cary Fagan | Beyond the Dance: A Ballerina's Life | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Wizards: An Amazing Journey through the Last Great Age of Magic | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Wilfrid Laurier: A Pledge for Canada | Finalist | ||
| 2004 | Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | Winner | |
| Template:Sortname | Four Pictures by Emily Carr | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Oscar: The Life and Music of Oscar Peterson | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Discovering the Arctic: The Story of John Rae | Finalist | ||
| 2005 | Template:Sortname | In Your Face: The Culture of Beauty and You | Winner | |
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| Template:Sortname | Red Land, Yellow River: A Story from the Cultural Revolution | Finalist | ||
| 2006 | Template:Sortname and Jim Slavin | Transformed: How Everyday Things Are Mad | Winner | |
| Template:Sortname | Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk About AIDS | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Coming to Canada: Building a Life in a New Land | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Hiding Edith: A True Story | Finalist | ||
| 2007 | Template:Sortname | I Found a Dead Bird: The Kids' Guide to the Cycle of Life & Death | Winner | |
| Template:Sort | Factory Girl | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Fire! The Renewal of a Forest | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sort | Genocide | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Ryan and Jimmy: And the Well in Africa That Brought Them Together | Finalist | ||
| 2008 | Template:Sortname | At Vimy Ridge: Canada's Greatest World War I Victory | Winner | |
| Template:Sortname with Nancy Kovacs, illus. by Robert Bateman | Birds of Prey: An Introduction | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname, illus. by Millie Ballance | Template:Sort | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | This Is My Planet: The Kids' Guide to Global Warming | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sort | Weird Weather: Everything You Didn't Want to Know About Climate Change but Probably Should Find Out | Finalist | ||
| 2009 | Template:Sortname with Susan McClelland | Template:Sort | Winner | |
| Template:Sort | Inuksuk Journey: An Artist at the Top of the World | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname, illus. by Willow Dawson | No Girls Allowed: Tales of Daring Women Dressed As Men for Love, Freedom and Adventure | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname, illus. by Eugenie Fernandes | One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Royal Murder: The Deadly Intrigue of Ten Sovereigns | Finalist | ||
| 2010 | Template:Sortname with Dawn Hunter | Adventures on the Ancient Silk Road | Winner | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | Born to Write: The Remarkable Lives of Six Famous Authors | Finalist | ||
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| Template:Sortname and Sharon E. McKay | Whispers from the Ghettos | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Follow That Map! A First Book of Mapping Skills | Finalist | ||
| 2011 | Template:Sortname | Case Closed? Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science | Winner | |
| Template:Sortname | Watch This Space: Designing, Defending and Sharing Public Spaces | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Not Your Typical Book About the Environment | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged | Finalist | ||
| 2012 | Template:Sortname | Loon | Winner | |
| Template:Sortname with Dawn Hunter | Beyond Bullets: A Photo Journal of Afghanistan | Finalist | <ref name=":1">Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | Off to Class: Incredible and Unusual Schools Around the World | Finalist | <ref name=":1" /> | |
| Template:Sortname | Scribbling Women: True Tales from Astonishing Lives | Finalist | <ref name=":1" /> | |
| Template:Sortname, illus. by Margot Thompson | Biomimicry: Inventions Inspired by Nature | Finalist | <ref name=":1" /> | |
| 2013 | Template:Sortname | Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely Through a Never-Ending War | Winner | |
| Template:Sortname | Rescuing the Children: The Story of the Kindertransport | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Going Up! Elisha Otis's Trip to the Top | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Real Justice: Fourteen and Sentenced to Death – The Story of Steven Truscott | Finalist | ||
| 2014 | Template:Sortname | Template:Sort | Winner | |
| Template:Sortname | Looks Like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous Kids | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname and Frieda Wishinsky | Template:Sort | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Branded by the Pink Triangle | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | My Name Is Blessing | Finalist | ||
| 2015 | Template:Sortname | Why We Live Where We Live | Winner | |
| Template:Sortname | From Vimy to Victory: Canada's Fight to the Finish in World War I | Finalist | <ref name=":2">Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname | Starting from Scratch: What You Should Know about Food and Cooking | Finalist | <ref name=":2" /> | |
| Template:Sortname with Wayne K. Spear and Constance Brissenden | Residential Schools, With the Words and Images of Survivors: A National History | Finalist | <ref name=":2" /> | |
| Template:Sortname | If: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers | Finalist | <ref name=":2" /> | |
| 2016 | Template:Sortname | Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book About Bodies, Feelings, and You | Winner | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Template:Sortname | Foodprints: The Story of What We Eat | Finalist | ||
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| Template:Sortname and Michel Chikwanine | Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War | Finalist | ||
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| 2017 | Template:Sortname | Canada Year by Year | Winner | |
| Template:Sortname and Paula Ayer | Water Wow! An Infographic Exploration | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Level the Playing Field: The Past, Present, a Future of Women's Pro Sports | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Fight to Learn: The Struggle to Go to School | Finalist | ||
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| 2018 | Template:Sortname and Mary Beth Leatherdale | Template:Sort | Winner | |
| Template:Sortname and Ann Love | Rewilding: Giving Nature a Second Chance | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Meatless? A Fresh Look at What You Eat | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | When Planet Earth Was New | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname (Brett D. Huson) | Template:Sort | Finalist | ||
| 2019 | Template:Sortname and Karen Reczuch | Turtle Pond | Winner | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Template:Sortname and Bill Slavin | Trash Revolution: Breaking the Waste Cycle | Finalist | <ref name=":3">Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname and Joe Morse | Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes | Finalist | <ref name=":3" /> | |
| Template:Sortname | Bat Citizen: Defending the Ninjas of the Night | Finalist | <ref name=":3" /> | |
| Template:Sortname | After Life: Ways We Think About Death | Finalist | <ref name=":3" /> | |
| 2020 | Template:Sortname and Alison Matthews David | Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed, & Murdered Through History | Winner | |
| Template:Sortname | Cells: An Owner's Handbook | Finalist | <ref name=":4">Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Template:Sortname and Kirstie Hudson | Picking Up the Pieces: Residential School Memories and the Making of the Witness Blanket | Finalist | <ref name=":4" /> | |
| Template:Sortname | Beastly Puzzles: A Brain-Boggling Animal Guessing Game | Finalist | <ref name=":4" /> | |
| Template:Sortname | Fairy Science | Finalist | <ref name=":4" /> | |
| 2021 | Template:Sortname | Powwow: A Celebration Through Song and Dance | Winner | |
| Template:Sortname (Brett D. Huson), illus. by Natasha Donovan | Template:Sort | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname, illus. by Drew Shannon | This Is Your Brain on Stereotypes: How Science is Tackling Unconscious Bias | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname, illus. by Marianne Ferrer | 111 Trees: How One Village Celebrates the Birth of Every Girl | Finalist | ||
| Template:Sortname | Crows: Genius Birds | Finalist | ||
| 2022 | Template:Sortname, illus. by Jacqueline Li | Template:Sort | Winner | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Template:Sortname, illus. by Ian Turner | Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads | Finalist | <ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Template:Sort and Kate Fry (ed.) | Growing Up Trans: In Our Own Words | Finalist | <ref name=":0" /> | |
| Template:Sortname, illus. by François Thisdale | Template:Sort | Finalist | <ref name=":0" /> | |
| Template:Sortname with Susan McClelland | Boy from Buchenwald: The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor | Finalist | <ref name=":0" /> | |
| 2023 | Carey Newman and Kirstie Hudson | The Witness Blanket: Truth, Art and Reconciliation | Winner | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Tanya Lloyd Kyi and Julia Kyi, illus. by Vivian Rosas | Better Connected: How Girls Are Using Social Media for Good | Finalist | <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| 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 |