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