SECTOR ANALYSIS
Children’s Indie Retailers’ Top 50 LEGO leads the way as a literary line-up over-indexes through indie bookshops
Title 1 LEGO Minifigure Mayhem: WBD
3 The Secret Commonwealth 4 The World’s Worst Teachers 5 Fing
6 Everdark: WBD
DAVID WALLIAMS SUFFERED, WITH MOST OF HIS SALES COMING THROUGH OTHER CHANNELS
A World Book Day title leads the way, but
many titles with more literary pretentions— and heftier a.s.p.s— fared well through independents
Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien
T
he Children’s chart through independent retailers is topped by World Book Day
title Beth Davies and Helen Murray’s LEGO Minifigure Mayhem. This is in sharp contrast to the Nielsen BookScan TCM-wide kids’ chart for the same period, which sees a David Walliams double at the top. With this chart covering 2019 up to 16th November, the comedian-turned- author’s shiny new blockbuster The Beast of Buckingham Palace, which racked up over 330,000 copies sold through the market as a whole in its first three weeks, does not feature—though even before its publication
on 21st November, Walliams had the TCM top two sewn up, with Fing and
06 The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Children’s
7 Bad Mermaids Meet the Witches 8 Ten Little Bookworms: WBD 9 Percy Jackson and the Singer... 10 The Great Rocket Robbery: WBD 11 The Wonky Donkey
14 The Boy At the Back of the Class 15 The Tiger Who Came to Tea 16 Cruella and Cadpig: WBD 17 Claude Best in Show: WBD 18 The Skylarks’ War
20 La Belle Sauvage
21 Hubert Horatio: A Very Fishy Tale 22 The Lost Words
23 The Smeds and the Smoo
24 Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid 25 Bad Dad
26 The Wizards of Once 27 The Getaway 28 Oi Frog!
29 Murder Most Unladylike 30 Zog
31 Top Marks For Murder 32 Nought Forever: WBD 33 The 13-Storey Treehouse
34 Horrid Henry: Up, Up and Away 35 Oi Dog!
36 The Go-Away Bird 37 Oi Cat!
38 The Very Hungry Caterpillar 39 The Good Thieves
40 Zog and the Flying Doctors
42 The 117-Storey Treehouse 43 Stick Man
44 Stormbreaker Author Imprint B Davies & H Murray DK Children
ISBN (+978) Format 0241370735 Paperback
2 Diary of Greg Heffley’s Best Friend Jeff Kinney Puffin 0241388822 Philip Pullman Penguin... D Walliams; T Ross D Walliams; T Ross
0241373330 Abi Elphinstone Simon & Schuster
HarperCollins 0008305789 HarperCollins. 0008342579 1471178351
1408357989
Rick Riordan Puffin 0241380734 Cottrell Boyce; Lenton Macmillan C Smith; K Cowley Scholastic
12 The Little Book of Jokes for Kids... - Zymurgy 13 The Explorer
Paperback Hardback Hardback Hardback Paperback
Sibéal Pounder et al Bloomsbury 1526604538 Paperback Brownlow; Rickerty Orchard
Paperback Paperback
1529012651 Paperback 1407195575 1903506318
Katherine Rundell Bloomsbury 1408882191 Onjali Q Rauf Orion
Judith Kerr HarperCollins P Bently; S Lenton Egmont Alex T Smith Hodder Hilary McKay Macmillan
19 Harry... and the Philosopher’s Stone J K Rowling Bloomsbury Philip Pullman Penguin... Lauren Child HarperCollins
1510105010 0007215997 1405294379 1444949483 1509894963 1408855652 0241365854 0008327439
Jeff Kinney Puffin 0241405604 D Walliams; T Ross
Cressida Cowell Hodder
Jeff Kinney Puffin 0141385259 Kes Gray; Jim Field Hodder
Robin Stevens Puffin 0141369761 Donaldson; Scheffler Alison Green
Robin Stevens Puffin 0241348383 Malorie Blackman Penguin A Griffiths; T Denton Macmillan F Simon; T Ross
Orion
Gray, Grey; Field Hodder J Donaldson; C Rayner Macmillan Kes Gray; Jim Field Hodder Eric Carle Puffin
41 Harry... and the Chamber of Secrets J K Rowling Bloomsbury A Griffiths; T Denton Macmillan Donaldson; Scheffler Alison Green Anthony Horowitz Walker Liz Pichon Scholastic Dav Pilkey
45 Biscuits, Bands and Very Big Plans 46 Brawl of the Wild 47 The Ugly Five
48 The 104-Storey Treehouse 49 Oi Duck-billed Platypus! 50 The Meltdown
Scholastic
Donaldson; Scheffler Alison Green A Griffiths; T Denton Macmillan
Paperback Paperback Paperback Paperback Paperback Paperback Paperback Paperback Paperback Paperback Paperback
J Morris & R McFarlane Hamish Hamilton 0241253588 Hardback Donaldson; Scheffler Alison Green
HarperCollins 0008164669 1444936728
1407188898 Hardback Hardback Paperback Paperback Paperback Paperback Paperback
1444910865
1407170763 Paperback Paperback Paperback
0241388792
1447279785 Paperback 1510105928 1444919592
1509843589 Hardback 1444932522 0241003008
Katherine Rundell Bloomsbury 1408854891 Donaldson; Scheffler Alison Green
Paperback Paperback
Paperback Hardback Hardback
1407173504 Paperback 1408855669
Paperback
1509885275 Paperback 1407170718 Paperback 1406360196 1407189307 1338236576
Kes Gray; Jim Field Hodder Children’s 1444937336 Jeff Kinney Puffin 0241321980
Paperback Paperback Hardback
1407184630 Paperback 1509833771 Paperback Paperback Hardback
Date range 30th December 2018–16th November 2019 Unless otherwise stated, charts use data from Nielsen BookScan Total Consumer Market, representing print book sales through around 6,500 retailers. Any title discounted by more than 74.5% is ineligible for inclusion.
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