10th July 2026


3,525 Charts Children’s Children’s & YA Fiction 1


In the Spotlight


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Tom Fletcher ( 1), Dougie Poynter; Garry Parsons The Dinosaur That Pooped a Football! Puffin, £7.99, 9780241649299


The 16th entry in the Dinosaur That Pooped… series has seen its sales climb 5.7% this week as World Cup fever continues to grip fans of all ages, bringing its total sales to 32,756 since it was published in May of this year. Despite the sales boost, it has dropped a couple of positions in the Children’s Top 20 to sixth place. The series has an overall sales total of 2,696,853 copies, led by The Dinosaur That Pooped a Planet!, which has made 384,574 sales in the past 13 years.


3,739 TCM copies sold


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Heartstopper Volume 6 Alice Oseman


Hodder Children’s, 9781444974881, £10.28 Lottie Brooks vs the Ultra Mean Girls


Katie Kirby Puffin, 9780241647233, £6.50


Bunny vs Monkey: Intergalactic Monkey… Jamie Smart


DFB Phoenix, 9781788453622, £7.22 The Seriously Epic Holiday of Lottie Brooks


Katie Kirby Puffin, 9780241769249, £9.15


Pablo and Splash: Viking Voyage


Sheena Dempsey Bloomsbury, 9781526690876, £6.05


6  Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper Jeff Kinney Puffin, 9780241745168, £9.88 7  Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess Jeff Kinney Puffin, 9780241583180, £5.51 8  Thornbird E Kennedy Electric Monkey, 9780008813420, £6.41 9  Seven Deadly Thorns Amber Hamilton Bloomsbury YA, 9781526680310, £6.08 10  The Extremely Embarrassing Life of Lottie… Katie Kirby Puffin, 9780241460887, £6.23 11  World Cup Greatest Moments Matt and Tom Oldfield Dino Books, 9781789469417, £4.64 Puffin, 9780241562055, £5.91 1,782 1,657 1,648 1,635 1,595 1,595 12  Lottie Brooks’s Totally Disastrous School Trip Katie Kirby 13  Lottie Brooks’s Essential Guide to Life Katie Kirby Puffin, 9780241647202, £5.49 14  Megalomaniacs: The Invasion Begins! Jamie Smart DFB Phoenix, 9781788453844, £7.72 15  InvestiGators: Weather or Not John Patrick Green Macmillan Children’s, 9781035068180, £10.14 Puffin, 9780241647264, £5.90 1,590 1,522 1,490 1,471 16  The Majorly Awkward BFF Dramas of Lottie… Katie Kirby 17  The Catastrophic Friendship Fails of Lottie… Katie Kirby Puffin, 9780241460900, £6.33 18  Better Than the Movies Lynn Painter Simon & Schuster, 9781398536517, £7.11 Puffin, 9780241562031, £6.04 1,434 1,433 1,421 19  The Mega-Complicated Crushes of Lottie Brooks Katie Kirby 1 36 20  Bunny vs Monkey Jamie Smart David Fickling, 9781788451772, £7.19 1,414 1,322 2,121 3,122 3,526 6,368 29,841 Pre-school & Picture Books 1


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Lesley Sims; Sandrine Lamour Usborne, 9781806460724, £4.67


The Dinosaur That Pooped a Football!


Tom Fletcher, Dougie Poynter; Garry Parsons Puffin, 9780241649299, £4.60


The Turtle Who Turned the Tide Rachel Bright


Orchard, 9781408366455, £5.02 Frog’s Day Out


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan Children’s , 9781035006885, £4.16


Is This a Plum?


Dan and Finn Ojari Puffin, 9780241770511, £8.11


6  Guess How Much I Love You Sam McBratney; Anita Jeram Walker, 9781406358780, £4.64 Usborne, 9781836045960, £4.77 2,567 7  Sticker Dolly Dressing: Crystal Fairies F Watt; A Kanavaliuk 8  We’re Going on a Teddy Hunt Ma Mumford; C Zamazing Bloomsbury’s Children’s, 9781526671714, £3.88 9  Dear Zoo Rod Campbell Macmillan Children’s, 9781529074932, £5.22 10  Gozzle Julia Donaldson; Sara Ogilvie 11  Toy Story 5: My Busy Book Phidal, 9782764372425, £7.25 12  100 First Facts: Exploring our Planet Sweet Cherry, 9781802634471, £7.32 13  The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle Puffin , 9780241003008, £4.62 14  Noisy Farm Rod Campbell 15  Cat Moments Hikaru Kotz Puffin, 9780241780091, £4.56 Macmillan Children’s, 9781035055791, £4.10 Expanse, 9780008812362, £5.63 16  Who Is at the Zoo, Spot? Eric Hill 17  Tiddler Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green , 9781407170756, £4.80 18  The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan Children’s, 9781509804757, £5.09 19  That’s Not My Axolotl… Emily Bone; Rachel Wells Usborne, 9781836049463, £4.17 20  Zog Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green, 9781407170763, £5.13 Macmillan Children’s, 9781529076424, £4.99 2,485 2,382 2,233 2,181 2,159 2,148 2,027 1,666 1,646 1,606 1,576 1,569 1,549 1,541 All Children’s charts © NielsenIQ BookScan 2,779 2,781 2,948 3,739 7,800


The paperback release of Jamie Smart’s Bunny vs Monkey: Intergalactic Monkey Business! has sold 3,526 copies in its first week on sale, a slight 1.7% boost compared to last year’s The Great Big Glitch!


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