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Paolo Bacigalupi's debut novel, The Windup Girl, has won big at the 2010 Nebula Awards. The Nebulas, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America are considered to be one of the "big three" awards in the science fiction and fantasy field. The Windup Girl is also shortlisted for Best Novel at the Hugo Awards.

A complete list of winners in all categories may be found here.

The shortlist for the 2010 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards have been announced!

The two awards, worth $6,000 each, honour the best in writing and illustration in Canadian children's literature.

The nominees in the children's picture book category are:

• Perfect Snow by Barbara Reid
• When Stella was Very, Very Small by Marie-Louise Gay
• Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion by Jane Barclay
• Scaredy Squirrel at Night by Melanie Watt
• The Imaginary Garden by Andrew Larsen

The nominees in the young adult/middle reader category are:

• Vanishing Girl by Shane Peacock
• The Present Tense of Prinny Murphy by Jill MacLean
• earthgirl by Jennifer Cowan
• The Mealworm Diaries by Anna Kerz
• The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong

Last year's winners were Chester's Back! by Melanie Watt in the children's picture book category, and in the young adult/middle reader category the winner was Libertad by Alma Fullerton.

The Alex Awards, awarded by the Young Adult Library Services Association, are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.

Here are some of the winning titles that I thought looked particularly intriguing. If you like these books and are looking for more, you can check out the full list of winners or even the shortlist.

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The Manitoba Writers' Guild and the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers have announced the Manitoba Book Awards shortlists. Winners will be announced at the Manitoba Book Awards Gala on Sunday, April 25, 2010, at the Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain, 340 boulevard Provencher. A pre-awards reception will begin at 7:00 p.m. and the ceremony will run from 8:00-10:00 p.m. Admission is free and the event is open to the public. This year's ceremony will be hosted by Neil Besner, Vice President and former Dean of Arts of the University of Winnipeg. Since the event's inception in 1989, during which a single award (the McNally Robinson Book of the Year) was presented, The Manitoba Book Awards has grown to feature 13 categories. Nominees and winners are selected by jurors drawn from across Manitoba and Canada.

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