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]
The award was discontinued after 2023, with a new Sharon Fitzhenry Award for Children's Nonfiction to be presented beginning in 2025.
| 1999 | and Debora Pearson | By Truck to the North: My Winter Adventure | Winner | ||
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| Catching Fire: The Story of Firefighting | Finalist | ||||
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| Accidental Discoveries: From Laughing Gas to Dynamite | Finalist | ||||
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| 2000 | and Sheldon Oberman | Winner | |||
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| Five Pennies: A Prairie Boy's Story | Finalist | ||||
| 2001 | Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingale | Winner | |||
| Pier 21: Gateway of Hope | Finalist | ||||
| and Jane Drake | Finalist | ||||
| New Animal Discoveries | Finalist | ||||
| Born to be a Cowgirl: A Spirited Ride Through the Old West | Finalist | ||||
| 2002 | Winner | ||||
| Hana's Suitcase | Finalist | ||||
| Nerves Out Loud: Critical Moments in the Lives of Seven Teen Girls | Finalist | ||||
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| Righting Wrongs: The Story of Norman Bethune | Finalist | ||||
| 2003 | with Constance Brissenden | As Long as the Rivers Flow | Winner | ||
| Under the Ice | Finalist | ||||
| with Cary Fagan | Beyond the Dance: A Ballerina's Life | Finalist | |||
| Wizards: An Amazing Journey through the Last Great Age of Magic | Finalist | ||||
| Wilfrid Laurier: A Pledge for Canada | Finalist | ||||
| 2004 | Winner | ||||
| Four Pictures by Emily Carr | Finalist | ||||
| Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything | Finalist | ||||
| Oscar: The Life and Music of Oscar Peterson | Finalist | ||||
| Discovering the Arctic: The Story of John Rae | Finalist | ||||
| 2005 | In Your Face: The Culture of Beauty and You | Winner | |||
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| Red Land, Yellow River: A Story from the Cultural Revolution | Finalist | ||||
| 2006 | and Jim Slavin | Transformed: How Everyday Things Are Mad | Winner | ||
| Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk About AIDS | Finalist | ||||
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| Coming to Canada: Building a Life in a New Land | Finalist | ||||
| Hiding Edith: A True Story | Finalist | ||||
| 2007 | I Found a Dead Bird: The Kids' Guide to the Cycle of Life & Death | Winner | |||
| Factory Girl | Finalist | ||||
| Fire! The Renewal of a Forest | Finalist | ||||
| Genocide | Finalist | ||||
| Ryan and Jimmy: And the Well in Africa That Brought Them Together | Finalist | ||||
| 2008 | At Vimy Ridge: Canada's Greatest World War I Victory | Winner | |||
| with Nancy Kovacs, illus. by Robert Bateman | Birds of Prey: An Introduction | Finalist | |||
| , illus. by Millie Ballance | Finalist | ||||
| This Is My Planet: The Kids' Guide to Global Warming | Finalist | ||||
| Weird Weather: Everything You Didn't Want to Know About Climate Change but Probably Should Find Out | Finalist | ||||
| 2009 | with Susan McClelland | Winner | |||
| Inuksuk Journey: An Artist at the Top of the World | Finalist | ||||
| , illus. by Willow Dawson | No Girls Allowed: Tales of Daring Women Dressed As Men for Love, Freedom and Adventure | Finalist | |||
| , illus. by Eugenie Fernandes | One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference | Finalist | |||
| Royal Murder: The Deadly Intrigue of Ten Sovereigns | Finalist | ||||
| 2010 | with Dawn Hunter | Adventures on the Ancient Silk Road | Winner | [3] | |
| Born to Write: The Remarkable Lives of Six Famous Authors | Finalist | ||||
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| and Sharon E. McKay | Whispers from the Ghettos | Finalist | |||
| Follow That Map! A First Book of Mapping Skills | Finalist | ||||
| 2011 | Case Closed? Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science | Winner | |||
| Watch This Space: Designing, Defending and Sharing Public Spaces | Finalist | ||||
| Not Your Typical Book About the Environment | Finalist | ||||
| Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be | Finalist | ||||
| Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged | Finalist | ||||
| 2012 | Loon | Winner | |||
| with Dawn Hunter | Beyond Bullets: A Photo Journal of Afghanistan | Finalist | [4] | ||
| Off to Class: Incredible and Unusual Schools Around the World | Finalist | ||||
| Scribbling Women: True Tales from Astonishing Lives | Finalist | ||||
| , illus. by Margot Thompson | Biomimicry: Inventions Inspired by Nature | Finalist | |||
| 2013 | Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely Through a Never-Ending War | Winner | |||
| Rescuing the Children: The Story of the Kindertransport | Finalist | ||||
| Going Up! Elisha Otis's Trip to the Top | Finalist | ||||
| Real Justice: Fourteen and Sentenced to Death – The Story of Steven Truscott | Finalist | ||||
| 2014 | Winner | ||||
| Looks Like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous Kids | Finalist | ||||
| and Frieda Wishinsky | Finalist | ||||
| Branded by the Pink Triangle | Finalist | ||||
| My Name Is Blessing | Finalist | ||||
| 2015 | Why We Live Where We Live | Winner | |||
| From Vimy to Victory: Canada's Fight to the Finish in World War I | Finalist | [5] | |||
| Starting from Scratch: What You Should Know about Food and Cooking | Finalist | ||||
| with Wayne K. Spear and Constance Brissenden | Residential Schools, With the Words and Images of Survivors: A National History | Finalist | |||
| If: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers | Finalist | ||||
| 2016 | Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book About Bodies, Feelings, and You | Winner | [6] | ||
| Foodprints: The Story of What We Eat | Finalist | ||||
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| and Michel Chikwanine | Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War | Finalist | |||
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| 2017 | Canada Year by Year | Winner | |||
| and Paula Ayer | Water Wow! An Infographic Exploration | Finalist | |||
| Level the Playing Field: The Past, Present, a Future of Women's Pro Sports | Finalist | ||||
| Fight to Learn: The Struggle to Go to School | Finalist | ||||
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| 2018 | and Mary Beth Leatherdale | Winner | |||
| and Ann Love | Rewilding: Giving Nature a Second Chance | Finalist | |||
| Meatless? A Fresh Look at What You Eat | Finalist | ||||
| When Planet Earth Was New | Finalist | ||||
| (Brett D. Huson) | Finalist | ||||
| 2019 | and Karen Reczuch | Turtle Pond | Winner | [7] | |
| and Bill Slavin | Trash Revolution: Breaking the Waste Cycle | Finalist | [8] | ||
| and Joe Morse | Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes | Finalist | |||
| Bat Citizen: Defending the Ninjas of the Night | Finalist | ||||
| After Life: Ways We Think About Death | Finalist | ||||
| 2020 | and Alison Matthews David | Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed, & Murdered Through History | Winner | ||
| Cells: An Owner's Handbook | Finalist | [9] | |||
| and Kirstie Hudson | Picking Up the Pieces: Residential School Memories and the Making of the Witness Blanket | Finalist | |||
| Beastly Puzzles: A Brain-Boggling Animal Guessing Game | Finalist | ||||
| Fairy Science | Finalist | ||||
| 2021 | Powwow: A Celebration Through Song and Dance | Winner | |||
| (Brett D. Huson), illus. by Natasha Donovan | Finalist | ||||
| , illus. by Drew Shannon | This Is Your Brain on Stereotypes: How Science is Tackling Unconscious Bias | Finalist | |||
| , illus. by Marianne Ferrer | 111 Trees: How One Village Celebrates the Birth of Every Girl | Finalist | |||
| Crows: Genius Birds | Finalist | ||||
| 2022 | , illus. by Jacqueline Li | Winner | [10] | ||
| , illus. by Ian Turner | Mad for Ads: How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads | Finalist | [11] | ||
| and Kate Fry (ed.) | Growing Up Trans: In Our Own Words | Finalist | |||
| , illus. by François Thisdale | Finalist | ||||
| with Susan McClelland | Boy from Buchenwald: The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor | Finalist | |||
| - style=background:#cddeff | 2023 | Carey Newman and Kirstie Hudson | The Witness Blanket: Truth, Art and Reconciliation | Winner | [12] |
| Tanya Lloyd Kyi and Julia Kyi, illus. by Vivian Rosas | Better Connected: How Girls Are Using Social Media for Good | Finalist | [13] | ||
| 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 |