Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award
Non-fiction

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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

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