Norma Fleck Award

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]

Contents

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

  • 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

2010

  • Priscilla Galloway with Dawn Hunter, Adventures on the Ancient Silk Road

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