Charts Children’s
Book Day titles, you can't keep a new Rowling release down— even if it was originally issued 16 years ago. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (not to be confused with the screenplay of the same name) shiſted 10,883 copies in its first week on sale, hiting 12th overall and fourth in Children’s & YA
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Fiction. The Emma Watson- starring live-action remake of “Beaut and the Beast” has also breathed life into the kids’ charts, with The Beaut and the Beast Colouring Book hiting the Chil- dren’s Pre-school top 20 and The Beaut and the Beast Book of the Film featuring in Children’s & YA Fiction, in 20th. ×
Children’s Pre-school wks title
1 2 3 4 5 6
author; illustrator
4 Where’s Wally?... Fantastic Journey Martin Handford 4 Everyone Loves Underpants
Claire Freedman; Ben Cort 2 Guess How Much I Love You
7 24 Spinderella 8 9
imprint Walker S&S
4 Peppa Loves World Book Day! – Ladybird 2 The Detective Dog
isbn (978+) asp sales
1406376753 £1.00 14,794 1471163074 £1.00 13,963 0141378312
£1.00
9 The LEGO Batman Movie... – DK Children J Donaldson; Sebastian Braun Egmont
2 The Official Pokemon Legendary... – Orchard 1 What the Ladybird Heard Next
J Donaldson; Lydia Monks £4.17 13,291
Julia Donaldson; Sara Ogilvie Macmillan 1509801602 £4.24 4,841 Sam McBratney; Anita Jeram Walker
2,451 £5.16
1406358780 £3.51 2,473 0241279465
1405282727 £3.95 2,446 1408350577
2,345
10 10 LEGO Batman Movie: Chaos... – Egmont 1405286244 11 3 Poppy’s Journal – Igloo 12 14 We’re Going on a Bear Hunt 13 14 Fox’s Socks 14 31 Postman Bear
1786703545 Michael Rosen; Helen Oxenbury Walker
15 1 Peppa Pig: My Mummy – Ladybird 16 7 Hide-and-Seek Pig 17 4 Superworm 18 2 Rabbit’s Nap 19 6 Tabby McTat
20 1 The Beauty... Colouring Book
Macmillan 1509838585 £3.52 2,245 £3.95 £3.78
2,180 2,134
0744523232 £4.37 2,073
Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan 1447273400 £3.50 2,049 Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan 1447273424 £3.37 2,025 1409312154
£3.05 2,001
Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan 1447273431 £3.43 1,976 Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Scholastic 1407170725 £4.34 1,972 Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan 1447273417 £3.41 1,968 Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Scholastic 1407170701 £4.17 1,774 G-S De Villeneuve
Macmillan 1509839360 £5.73 1,723 Children’s & YA Fiction
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
wks title 4 Blob
4 Butterfly Beach
4 Princess Mirror-Belle... White 1 Fantastic Beasts... to Find Them 3 Horrid Henry Funny Fact Files
author; illustrator David Walliams Jacqueline Wilson
J Donaldson; L Monks J K Rowling
Francesca Simon
4 Good Old Timmy and Other Stories Enid Blyton 6 Grandpa’s Great Escape 3 Island
3 Dead of Night 10 20 The Midnight Gang
David Walliams David Almond Michael Grant David Walliams
11 67 Harry Potter... Philosopher’s Stone J K Rowling 12 209 Gangsta Granny 13 23 Demon Dentist 14 8 Old School
15 7 Super Good Skills (Almost...) 16 18 Awful Auntie 17 20 Double Down
18 44 The World’s Worst Children
David Walliams David Walliams Jeff Kinney Liz Pichon
David Walliams Jeff Kinney
David Walliams 19 24 Harry Potter... Chamber of Secrets J K Rowling
imprint HC
Corgi isbn (978+) asp sales
0008221539 £1.00 26,658 0552576222 £1.00 13,693
Macmillan 1509840861 £1.00 11,358 Bloomsbury 1408880715 £7.73 10,883 Orion
Hodder Electric...
1510102798 £1.00 10,502 1444937190 £1.00 10,234
HarperCollins 0008183424 £4.26 6,582 Hodder
1444937176 £1.00 5,799 1780318134 £1.00 5,286
HarperCollins 0008164614 £6.54 4,657 Bloomsbury 1408855652 £4.85 4,207 HarperCollins 0007371464 £4.20 4,071 HarperCollins 0007453580 £4.23 3,850 Puffin
0141377094 £4.40 3,834
Scholastic 1407177489 £4.40 3,668 HarperCollins 0007453627 £4.16 3,644 Puffin
0141373010 £7.00 3,489 20 1 Disney Beauty... Book of the Film – Parragon 18
HarperCollins 0008197032 £8.59 2,969 Bloomsbury 1408855669 £4.64 2,957 1474852470
£4.23 2,860 24th March 2017
“Jackanory for adults”—is defi- nitely paying off. The newest production, Crackanory: Too Cracked for TV, released exclu- sively through Audible, has topped the Audio Download Top 20 for February, with Crack- anory: Seasons 1, 2 and 3 in third place and Crackanory: Season
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4 in sixth. The combination of short, bitesize stories, narrated by seasoned performers and a firm this-is-not-for-children approach seems to be working wonders for Audible’s Millen- nial audience. Regular readers of the audio download charts pages—and indeed, any charts pages—will be all too aware of the grip that Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train has had over the rank- ing’s number one spot. But in
Sandwiched in an all-new top three is J P Delaney thriller The Girl Before, narrated by actress Emilia Fox
February, not only did the all- conquering commuter thriller fall to its lowest chart position yet (eighth), a likely successor knifed it in the back to leap- frog it, taking second place. J P Delaney’s The Girl Before has been riding high in the Original
EXCLUSIVE Audio
Julia Donaldson occupies almost half (9/20) of the Children’s Pre-school chart
Could February’s top trio in audio format signal a changing of the guard—with Paula Hawkins and Harry Poter in retreat? Kiera O’Brien reports
UDIBLE’S PARTNERSHIP WITH “Crackanory”—the Dave TV show billed as
Photograph: Chris Athanasiou
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