Norma Fleck Award

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]

Awards and winners

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

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

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

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
  • 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 Mary Beth Leatherdale, #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

2021[2]
  • Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane. Powwow: A Celebration Through Song and Dance
  • Rina Singh. 111 Trees: How One Village Celebrates the Birth of Every Girl. Illustrated by Marianne Ferrer.
  • Kyla Vanderklugt. Crows: Genius Birds.
  • Hetxw’ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson). The Eagle Mother. Illustrated by Natasha Donovan.
  • Tanya Lloyd Kyi. This Is Your Brain on Stereotypes: How Science is Tackling Unconscious Bias. Illustrated by Drew Shannon.

2022[3]
  • The Power of Style: How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim Cultures, written by Christian Allaire and illustrated by Jacqueline Li[4]
  • Boy from Buchenwald: The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor, by Robbie Waisman with Susan McClelland
  • The Girl Who Loved Giraffes and Became the World’s First Giraffologist, by Kathy Stinson and by François Thisdale, ill.
  • Growing Up Trans: In Our Own Words, by Dr. Lindsay Herriot and Kate Fry, eds.
  • Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads, by Erica Fyvie and Ian Turner, ill.

References
  1. "Sask., Man. writers win for children's books". cbc.ca, November 11, 2010.
  2. "Previous Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction Winners and Finalists". The Canadian Children's Book Centre. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
  3. "CCBC Book Awards announces 2022 shortlist". Quill & Quire. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
  4. "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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