5,459 Volume sales for Diper Överlöde


Parents support well-known authors Old favourites for new readers


sold more than £5m-worth of Peppa and Bluey-related titles in P&PB through BookScan’s Total Consumer Market in 2023, accounting for around 18% of its total value in the category. PRH also scores the number one title for last year in the category with Pippa Goodhart’s World Book Day special You Choose Your Adventure, illustrated by Nick Sharratt. WBD’s £1 titles can obviously


shift a bunch of units—it handed HarperCollins Children’s Books (HCCB) its highest entry for the year: Bedtime for the Burpee Bears by Joe Wicks, illustrated by Paul Howard—and for Bloomsbury Children’s, too, with Tom Percival’s Billy’s Bravery. But it was the


Paddington creator Michael Bond, Dr Seuss, award-winning creator Oliver Jeffers and the beloved Judith Kerr. And so, too, with some of the other big publishers. Around a third of Usborne’s £19.6m comes from Fiona Watt and her stable of illustrators. In a sea of familiar names,


wealth of well- known authors in the HCCB stable that enabled the publisher to bag fourth place among P&PB publishers with a total volume of £15m, including


Title


1 You Choose Your Adventure 2 Where’s Spidey? 3 Billy’s Bravery


4 Dinosaurs: Around the World...


Publishers who might not have a lion’s share of the big brand authors are finding ways to compete


other publishers who might not have a lion’s share of the big brand authors are finding ways to compete. Bonnier Books UK, which came hard on HarperCollins’ heels with a total value of £14m last year, has its strength in the sub- category Novelty & Activity Books. Where’s Spidey?, a search and find book created with Marvel, came second overall in the Top 20 with more than 141,000 copies sold. The huge range of “jumbo colour- ing”, “search and find colouring”, “tear off colouring” and plain old regular colouring books from the imprint Igloo was a big contributor to Bonnier Books UK’s success in the category. Other publishers, including


Author


Tom Percival -


Eric Carle Imprint


P Goodhart; N Sharratt Puffin -


Studio


ISBN (+978) Volume 0241618882 143,873 1800783010 141,481


Bloomsbury 1526658784 117,197 Igloo


1788106702 115,042


5 Bedtime for the Burpee Bears Joe Wicks; Paul Howard HarperCollins 0008588649 110,808 6 The Very Hungry Caterpillar 7 The Smeds and the Smoos 8 Dormouse Has a Cold 9 Squirrel’s Snowman 10 Dear Zoo


Puffin 0241003008 107,966 11 Where’s Bluey?


12 The Dinosaur that Pooped... 13 The Baddies


14 Guess How Much I Love You 15 Tabby McTat 16 Zog


J Donaldson; A Scheffler Alison Green 1407196657 97,913 J Donaldson; A Scheffler Macmillan J Donaldson; A Scheffler Macmillan Rod Campbell -


Macmillan Ladybird


T Fletcher & D Poynter Puffin


J Donaldson; A Scheffler Alison Green 0702325069 81,471 Sam McBratney; A JeramWalker


17 Bumper Animal Colouring Book - 18 Monkey: Wobbly Eyes Colouring - 19 Superworm


20 The Tiger Who Came to Tea TheBookseller.com


J Donaldson; A Scheffler Alison Green 1407170701 78,346 J Donaldson; A Scheffler Alison Green 1407170763 77,736 Igloo Igloo


J Donaldson; A Scheffler Alison Green 1407170725 75,924 Judith Kerr


HarperCollins 0007215997 75,621


1035006908 93,485 1529034370 92,209 1529074932 84,592 0241558577 82,327 0241649077 82,275


1406358780 81,306


1786701435 76,422 1786702852 76,288


Bloomsbury, are making the most of seasonal publishing opportunities. Despite ranking just below the top 10 publishers, Bloomsbury nabbed three spots in the top 50 last year with titles aimed at Christmas, Easter and Halloween


in Martha Mumford’s lift-the-flap picture book series. We’re Going on a Sleigh Ride, illustrated by Cherie Zamazing, sold 70,469 copies for 24th place, while We’re Going on a Ghost Hunt (also illustrated by Zamazing) and We’re Going on an Egg Hunt, illustrated by Laura Hughes, took 36th and 37th places selling nearly 60,000 copies each.


Data BookScan 2022 to 31st December, 2023 to December 30th, 2024 to 20th January.


Top 10 Pre-School Publisher Groups: 52 weeks to 30th December 2023. Nielsen BookScan’s Pre-school & Picture Books category only


1


PRH Children’s Value Share


2


Usborne Value Share


3


Macmillan Children’s Value Share


4


HC Children’s Value Share


5


Bonnier UK Value Share


6


Scholastic Value Share


7


Walker Value Share


8


Nosy Crow Value Share


9


Hachette Children’s Value Share


10


Curious Universe Value Share


£3.8m 2.3%


17


£5.7m 3.5%


£5.8m 3.6%


£6.3m 3.9%


£8.8m 5.5%


£14.1m 8.7%


£15.1m 9.3%


£17.7m 11%


£19.6m 12.1%


£28.0m 17.4%


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