Lane Anderson Award
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The Lane Anderson Award is an annual award presented to Canadian non-fiction science in two categories; adult and young readers.{{Cite news|url=https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/new-canadian-science-writing-prize-unveiled/article4188175/|title=New Canadian science-writing prize unveiled|date=2010-03-09|work=The Globe and Mail|access-date=2017-09-06|language=en-GB}} It is funded by the Fitzhenry Family Foundation, and headed by Sharon Fitzhenry and Hollister Doll.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2013/09/27/lane_anderson_award_winners_announced.html|title=Lane Anderson Award Winners announced |work=Toronto Star |access-date=2017-07-19}} Winners receive a plaque and a prize of 10,000 dollars. Winners are selected based on a book's relevance to current events and on its ability to relate scientific issues to everyday life.{{Cite news|url=http://www.quillandquire.com/awards/2015/09/29/2015-lane-anderson-award-winners-announced/|title=2015 Lane Anderson Award winners announced |date=2015-09-29|work=Quill and Quire|access-date=2017-07-19}}
Winners
= Young Readers=
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!Year !Title !Author !Publisher |
| 2021
|It Takes Guts |Jennifer Gardy |Greystone Books |
| 2019
|Heads Up |Melanie Siebert |Orca |
| 2018
|The Space Adventurer's Guide |Peter McMahon |
| 2017
|Biometrics |
| 2016
|5 Giraffes |Anne Innis Dagg{{Cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/books/books-on-giraffes-marine-birds-win-10k-science-writing-prizes-1.4307386|title=Anne Innis Dagg and Caroline Fox each win $10K prize for excellence in science writing {{!}} CBC Books|work=CBC|access-date=2017-09-26|language=en-US}} |
| 2015
|The Queen's Shadow |
| 2014
|Fuzzy Forensics: DNA Fingerprinting Gets Wild |Ashby-BP |
| 2013
|Before the World Was Ready: Stories of Daring Genius in Science |
| 2012
|Big Green Book of the Big Blue Sea |
| 2011
|Nowhere Else on Earth: Standing Tall for the Great Bear Rainforest |
= Adult =
| class="wikitable"
!Year !Title !Author !Publisher |
| 2021
|Ontario's Old-growth Forests 2nd edition |Michael Henry |
| 2019
|The Reality Bubble |Ziya Tong |Penguin Random House |
| 2018
|18 Miles |Christopher Dewdney |ECW Press |
| 2017
|Our Vanishing Glaciers |Rocky Mountain Books |
| 2016
|At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast |Rocky Mountain Books |
| 2015
|Malignant Metaphor: Confronting Cancer Myths |
| 2014
|Your Water Footprint: The Shocking Facts About How Much Water We Use to Make Everyday Products |Firefly Books |
| 2013
|The Peace-Athabasca Delta: Portrait of a Dynamic Ecosystem |
| 2012
|The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos |
| 2011
|The Atlantic Coast: A Natural History |