Charts Children’s
tively. The Hufflepuff paperback fell just 68 copies shy of top-20 glory. Although the Slytherin hardback fared worst of all, suggesting that book-buyers were cautious about purchasing it as a giſt. Who knows why that might be... Along with the series’ first three 2014-published editions (eighth,
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10th, 13th respectively), Rowling racked up a total of eight titles in the Children’s & YA Fiction top 20, topping even Walliams, with “only” six. Though the comedian-turned-author’s The World’s Worst Children 2 did claim the overall Children’s number one for a sixth consecutive week—his 20th of the year to date. ×
Children’s Pre-school wks title
1 2
1 There’s a Monster in Your Book
3 17 The Detective Dog 4 11 Dear Zoo
5 11 Guess How Much I Love You 6= 39 Spinderella
8
author; illustrator Tom Fletcher
1 What the Ladybird Heard... Holiday J Donaldson; L Monks
imprint Puffin
isbn (978+) asp sales 0141376097 £7.07 4,094 Macmillan 1509837328 £8.38 3,408
Julia Donaldson; Sara Ogilvie Macmillan 1509801602 £4.18 3,360 Rod Campbell
Sam McBratney; Anita Jeram Walker J Donaldson; S Braun
9 46 Postman Bear
10 22 Hide-and-Seek Pig 11 29 Fox’s Socks 12 19 Superworm 13 17 Rabbit’s Nap
Egmont
6= 22 Peppa Pig: Hide and Peek – Ladybird 7 Peppa Pig: My Daddy
– Ladybird
£3.92 £2.95
1,913 1,798
Macmillan 0230747722 £4.45 2,080 1406358780 £3.86 2,019 1405282727 £3.93 1,913 0241289273 1409309062
14 13 Peppa Goes to London – Ladybird 15 2 The Day the Crayons Quit 16 2 Oi Dog! 17 8 Zog
Hodder
18 2 We’re Going on a Bear Hunt 19 2 Ten Little Dinosaurs
20 11 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Orchard Puffin
Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan 1447273424 £3.52 1,779 Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan 1447273431 £3.54 1,759 Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan 1447273400 £3.58 1,751 Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Scholastic 1407170725 £4.21 1,665 Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan 1447273417 £3.40 1,634 0241294567
£5.11 1,508
Drew Daywalt; Oliver Jeffers HC Children’s 0007513765 £4.44 1,439 Kes Gray et al
0744523232 £4.48 1,341 1408346464 £4.21 1,331 0241003008 £5.08 1,313
1444919592 £4.91 1,355
Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Scholastic 1407170763 £4.45 1,344 Michael Rosen; Helen Oxenbury Walker M Brownlow; S Rickerty Eric Carle
Children’s & YA Fiction wks title 1 6 The World’s Worst Children 2
2 21 Grandpa’s Great Escape 3
5 Harry Potter... Stone: Gryffindor 4 13 The World’s Worst Children 5
6 224 Gangsta Granny 7 8 9
1 Harry Potter... Stone: Gryffindor
author; illustrator David Walliams David Walliams J K Rowling
David Walliams 9 Family, Friends and Furry Creatures Liz Pichon
David Walliams J K Rowling
4 Harry Potter... Philosopher’s Stone J K Rowling 5 Thirteen Reasons Why
Jay Asher
10 3 Harry Potter... Chamber of Secrets J K Rowling 11 33 Awful Auntie 12 38 Demon Dentist
13 2 Harry Potter... Prisoner of Azkaban J K Rowling 14 4 The Legend of Podkin One-Ear 15 1 Harry Potter... Stone: Slytherin 16 2 One of Us is Lying 17 7 Wave Me Goodbye
18 1 Harry Potter... Stone: Ravenclaw J K Rowling 19 1 Harry
Potter...Stone: Ravenclaw 20 23 Old School
J K Rowling Jeff Kinney
14
David Walliams David Walliams
imprint isbn (978+) asp sales
HarperCollins 0008259624 £8.19 16,238 HC Children’s 0008183424 £4.21 4,544 Bloomsbury 1408883730 £4.76 4,469 HC Children’s 0008197032 £8.81 4,414 Scholastic 1407168111 £7.04 4,320 HC Children’s 0007371464 £4.27 3,838 Bloomsbury 1408883747 £10.91 3,804 Bloomsbury 1408855652 £5.13 3,491 Penguin
0141387772 £4.89 3,435
Kieran Larwood & David Wyatt Faber J K Rowling
Karen McManus Jacqueline Wilson
Bloomsbury 1408855669 £4.72 3,319 HC Children’s 0007453627 £4.12 3,318 HC Children’s 0007453580 £4.20 3,312 Bloomsbury 1408855676 £4.58 2,594 0571328260 £5.23 2,566
Bloomsbury 1408883754 £4.66 2,531 Penguin
Doubleday 0857535153 £8.54 2,507 Bloomsbury 1408883778 £4.95 2,407 Bloomsbury 1408883785 £11.08 2,396 Puffin
0141377094 £4.58 2,395 7th July 2017 0141375632 £5.32 2,510 I
J K Rowling dominated the kids’ charts in the week of (the first) Harry Potter’s 20th birthday
N THE LEAST surprising news of 2017 to date, Paula Hawkins’ second title Into
the Water has sailed unchal- lenged into the Monthly E-Book Ranking number one spot for May. Though only those in the book trade who fell into a coma in January 2015 and have just come out of it will be unaware of the success of Hawkins’ psychological thriller début The Girl on the Train, it’s worth reiterating the title’s blister- ing record: it has sold a total of 2.4 million copies in print, racked up 29 weeks apiece in the Original and Mass-Market Fiction number one spots, and in digital, steamed to the top of the Monthly E-Book Ranking 13 times. In the last six months of 2016 alone, when it had been available on the virtual book- shelves for more than 18 months, it shiſted 300,000 units. So, no pressure then, Into the Water. The watery follow-up is off to a decent start, becoming one of the first e-books to shiſt more than 15,000 units in a calen- dar month this year (along with Penguin Random House
Combined E&P title
1 Into the Water
2 The Couple Next Door 3 Night School 4 I See You
5 Dead to Me
6 Small Great Things 7 Conclave
8 The Queen of Wishful... 9 The Clever Guts Diet 10 The Girls
e&p total 132,334 78,048 69,261 60,676 51,264 50,745 48,314 45,429 42,969 38,413
stablemate Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Scot Mariani’s The Babylon Idol, which placed second and third respectively this month). Into the Water’s 35,241-unit volume is the biggest for a monthly ranking number one since Lee Child’s Night School in November 2016. This haul is way off The Girl on the Train’s monthly peak of
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