Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award
Non-fiction

The Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award for Non-fiction (English) is voted on by children in Atlantic Canada who are in grades four to six.
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2015
- Maria Birmingham – Weird Zone: Sports
Also shortlisted:
- Andrea Curtis – What's for Lunch
- Etta Kaner – And the Winner Is...Amazing Animal Athletes
- Rob Laidlaw – Cat Champions
- Ann Love, Jane Drake – Pandemic Survival
- Elizabeth MacLeod, Frieda Wishinsky – A History of Just About Everything
- Brian McLachlan – Draw Out the Story
- Gina McMurchy-Barber – When Children Play
- Michelle Mulder – Pedal It!
- Christine Welldon – Reporter in Disguise
2014
- Rob Laidlaw – No Shelter Here
Also shortlisted:
- Paul Keery and Michael Wyatt – Canada at War
- Natalie Hyde – Cryptic Canada
- Tyne Brown – Driftwood Dragons and Other Seaside Poems
- Monica Kulling – Going Up!
- Katie Smith Milway – Mimi's Village and How Basic Health Care Transformed It
- Hadley Dyer – Potatoes on Rooftops
- Deborah Hodge – Rescuing the Children
- Wendy Kitts – Sable Island
- Claire Eamer – The World in Your Lunch Box
2013
- Tanya Lloyd Kyi – 50 Poisonous Questions
Also shortlisted:
- Suzanne K. Edwards – Adventures of a Trapper Boy
- Larry Verstraete – Case Files: 40 Murders and Mysteries Solved by Science
- Kathleen McDonnell – Emily Included
- Frieda Wishinsky – Explorers Who Made It...Or Died Trying
- Christopher Moore – From Then to Now: A Short History of the World
- Susan Hughes – Off to Class
- Don Downer – Selby the Lobster
- Ed Butts – Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes
- Peter McMahon – Space Tourism
2012
- Catherine Rondina – Don't Touch That Toad and Other Strange Things Adult Tell You
Also shortlisted:
- Keltie Thomas – Animals That Changed the World
- Heather Patterson – Canada from Above
- Jonathan Webb – Canada's Wars: An Illustrated History
- Susan Hughes – Case Closed? Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science
- Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton – Fatty Legs: A True Story
- Kathy Stinson – Highway of Heroes
- Helaine Becker – Hilarious History of Hockey
- Marilyn Lohnes – New Brunswick Kids Cook
- Paddy Muir – Wild Ones: The Tough Little Delicious Lowbush Blueberry
2011
- Valerie Wyatt – How to Build Your Own Country
Also shortlisted:
- Charis Cotter – Born to Write
- Hugh Brewster – Breakout Dinosaurs
- Beryl Young – Charlie
- Christine Welldon – The Children of Africville
- Helaine Becker – Insecto-Files
- John Crossingham – Learn to Speak Music
- Jacob Berkowitz – Out of This World
- Linda Granfield – Remembering John McCrae
- Diane Swanson – You are Weird
2010
- Joan Marie Galat – Dot to Dot in the Sky: Stories of the Zodiac
- Celia Godkin – Fire!: The renewal of a Forest
- David Acer – Gotcha! 18 Amazing Ways to Freak Out Your Friends
- Christine Webster – Mi'kmaq
- Janet Wilson – One Peace
- Robert Bateman – Polar Worlds
- Editors of Yes Mag – Robots From Everyday to Out of This World
- Linda Granfield – Unknown Soldier
- Shauntay Grant – Up Home
- Valerie Wyatt – Who Discovered America?
2009
- Ann Love and Jane Drake – Sweet!
Also shortlisted:
- Robert Bateman – Birds of Prey
- Helaine Becker – Mother Goose Unplucked
- Hugh Brewster – At Vimy Ridge
- Ed Butts – S O S Stories of Survival
- Charis Cotter – Kids Who Rule
- Alootook Ipellie – The Inuit Thought of It
- Anne Renaud – Pier 21: Stories from Near and Far
- Jeff Szpirglas – Fear This Book
- Keltie Thomas – How Soccer Works
2008
- Kathy Kacer – Hiding Edith
Also shortlisted:
- Vivien Bowers – Crazy About Canada
- Stanley Coren – Why Do Dogs Have Wet Noses?
- Jude Isabella and Megan Kopp – Science Detectives
- Teri-Lynn Janveau and Allister Thompson – Sailing for Glory
- Trudee Romanek – Squirt!
- Herb Shoveller – Ryan and Jimmy
- Dave Stubbs – Our Game
- Larry Verstraete – Lost Treasures
- Janice Weaver – Quilt of Belonging
2007
- Elizabeth MacLeod – Harry Houdini
Also shortlisted:
- Robert Bateman – Backyard Birds
- Kristin Bieber Domm – Atlantic Puffin
- Elizabeth Etue – Hayley Wickenheiser
- Pamela Hickman – Animals Hibernating
- Susan Hughes – Coming to Canada
- Anne Renaud – A Bloom of Friendship
- Bill Slavin – Transformed
- Jeff Szpirglas – They Did What!
- Maxine Trottier – Canadian Artists
2006
- Linda Bailey – Adventures in the Ice Age
Also shortlisted:
- Editors of YES Magazine – Fantastic Feats and Failures
- Lian Goodall – Singing Towards the Future
- Rick Jacobson – Picasso
- Elizabeth MacLeod – Marie Curie
- Ann-Maureen Owens & Jane Yealland – The Kids Book of Canadian Exploration
- Heather Patterson – A Poppy is to Remember
- Trudee Romanek – Aha!
- Rochelle Strauss – Tree of Life
- Keltie Thomas – The Kids Guide to Money Cent$
2005
- Diane Swanson – Tunnels!
Also shortlisted:
- Editors of YES Magazine – The Amazing International Space Station
- Shari Graydon – Made You Look
- Pamela Hickman – Animals and Their Young
- Tina Holdcroft – Hidden Treasures
- Elizabeth MacLeod – Albert Einstein
- Trudee Romanek – Achoo!
- Rosemary Sadlier – The Kids Book of Black Canadian History
- Laura Scandiffio – The Martial Arts Book
- John Wilson – Dancing Elephants and Floating Continents
2004
- Karen Levine – Hana's Suitcase
Also shortlisted:
- Linda Bailey – Adventures in Ancient Greece
- Jo Ellen Bogart – Capturing Joy
- Jill Bryant – Amazing Women Athletes
- Laurie Coulter – Secrets in Stone
- Susan Hughes – Canada Invents
- Wayne Lynch – The Scoop on Poop
- Ainslie Manson – House Calls
- Keltie Thomas – How Hockey Works
- Lyn Thomas – Ha! Ha! Ha!
2003
- Linda Bailey – Adventures With The Vikings
Also shortlisted:
- Frank Augustyn and Shelley Tanaka – Footnotes
- Linda Granfield – Where Poppies Grow
- Alannah Hegedus and Kaitlin Rainey – Shooting Hoops and Skating Loops
- Pamela Hickman – Animals Eating
- Elizabeth MacLeod – Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Cynthia Pratt Nicolson – Volcano!
- Richard Rhodes – A First Book of Canadian Art
- Laurie Skreslet with Elizabeth MacLeod – To The Top Of Everest
- Diane Swanson – Burp!
2002
- Vivien Bowers – WOW Canada!
Also shortlisted:
- Gena K. Gorrell – Heart and Soul
- Linda Granfield – Pier 21
- Ann Love and Jane Drake – The Kids Book of the Far North
- Wayne Lynch – Penguins!
- A.M.Owens and J. Yealland – Canada's Maple Leaf
- Shelley Tanaka – In the Time of Knights
- Shelley Tanaka – Secrets of the Mummies
- David Wistow and Kelly McKinley – Meet the Group of Seven
- Valerie Wyatt – FAQ Weather
2001
- Andy Turnbull with Debora Pearson – By Truck to the North
Also shortlisted:
- David Bouchard – A Barnyard Bestiary
- Karen Dudley – Bald Eagles
- Linda Granfield – Circus
- Rukhsana Khan – Muslim Child
- Elizabeth MacLeod – Alexander Graham Bell
- Patricia Miller-Schroeder – Blue Whales
- Lawrie Raskin with Debora Pearson – 52 Days by Camel
- Shelley Tanaka – Graveyards of the Dinosaurs
- Mary Wallace – The Inuksuk Book
2000
- Sheree Fitch – If You Could Wear My Sneakers
Also shortlisted:
- Sylvia Funston – Animal Smarts
- Linda Granfield – In Flanders Fields
- Barbara Greenwood – The Last Safe House
- Pam Hickman – At the Seashore
- Elizabeth MacLeod – Stamp Collecting
- John Melady – Acts of Courage
- Ann-Maureen Owens and Jane Yealland – Forts of Canada
- Shelley Tanaka – On Board the Titanic
- C.J. Taylor – The Monster from the Swamp