Charts Children’s


Walliams titles to feature in the Children’s & YA Fiction top 20 last week—Gangsta Granny has now spent 242 consecutive weeks in the chart, with Awful Auntie and Demon Dentist on 50 and 56 respectively. Tom Fletcher’s The


The Creakers in the top Pala-


10, and R J Pala-


Christmasaurus entered the chart to join hisjoin his s in the t


ectively. er’s The urus


cio’s Wonder hit 19th, ahead of the release of its film adaptation. Paul Moran’s Where’s the


Unicorn? and Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet’s SuperTato: Evil Pea Rules were the highest charting new entries in the Pre- school chart, with Mike Brownlow and Simon Rickert’s Ten Little Elves a new festive entry, in 18th place. ×


Children’s Pre-school wks title


1 2 3 4


9 Zog and the Flying Doctors 9 The Ugly Five


1 Where’s the Unicorn? 1 Supertato: Evil Pea Rules


5 35 The Detective Dog


6 18 That’s Not My Unicorn… 7 8


9 40 Hide-and-Seek Pig 10 29 Dear Zoo


author; illustrator imprint isbn (978+) asp sales


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407173504 £4.34 4,141 Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Scholastic 1407174198 £7.83 3,471 Paul Moran


Sue Hendra; Paul Linnet


Julia Donaldson; Sara Ogilvie Macmillan 1509801602 £4.11 2,657 Fiona Watt; Rachel Wells


Usborne 6 Nickelodeon PAW Patrol Annual... – Parragon 3 Where’s the Wookiee 2 – Egmont 1405284189


£3.87 £4.82


£5.33


2,506 2,429


2,165


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan 1447273431 £3.39 2,198 Rod Campbell


11 2 Peppa Pig: Happy Birthday! – Ladybird 12 29 Guess How Much I Love You 13 64 Postman Bear 14 47 Fox’s Socks


Sam McBratney; Anita Jeram Walker


15 2 Peppa Pig: Peppa’s Christmas Wish – Ladybird 16 5 The Lost Words 17 35 Rabbit’s Nap 18 1 Ten Little Elves 19 1 Stick Man 20 56 Spinderella


R Macfarlane & J Morris Children’s & YA Fiction wks title


1 2 3 4


6 7 8 9


1 Bad Dad 3 La Belle Sauvage


5 Epic Adventure (Kind Of) 1 The Christmasaurus


5 24 The World’s Worst Children 2 5 The Creakers


author; illustrator David Walliams Philip Pullman Liz Pichon


imprint isbn (978+) asp sales


Tom Fletcher; Shane Devries Puffin David Walliams


Tom Fletcher; Shane Devries Puffin


5 Harry Potter... Prisoner of Azkaban J K Rowling; Jim Kay 3 Dork Diaries: Crush Catastrophe 4 Turtles All the Way Down


10 50 Awful Auntie


11 39 Grandpa’s Great Escape 12 9 Birthday Boy 13 242 Gangsta Granny


14 2 Hetty Feather’s Christmas


David Walliams David Walliams David Baddiel David Walliams Jacqueline Wilson


15 22 Harry Potter... Philosopher’s Stone J K Rowling 16 1 The Girl with the Lost Smile 17 56 Demon Dentist


18 3 The World’s Worst Children 19 1 Wonder


Miranda Hart David Walliams David Walliams R J Palacio


20 15 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Rowling, Thorne & Tiffany 14


Rachel Renée Russell John Green


HarperCollins 0008164652 £6.04 92,667 Penguin/DFB 0385604413 £12.74 22,393 Scholastic 1407168050 £7.33 7,560 0141373348 £4.08 5,888


HarperCollins 0008259624 £7.94 5,219 0141388762 £6.92 5,155


Bloomsbury 1408845660 £16.67 5,075 S&S


Penguin


1471167751 £7.17 3,950 0241335437 £9.47 3,704


HC Children’s 0007453627 £3.98 3,648 HC Children’s 0008183424 £4.06 3,540 HarperCollins 0008200473 £6.07 3,463 HC Children’s 0007371464 £4.25 3,421 Doubleday 0857535535 £7.27 3,176 Bloomsbury 1408855652 £5.13 2,855 Hodder


1444941364 £7.04 2,706


HC Children’s 0007453580 £4.25 2,652 HC Children’s 0008197032 £8.14 2,528 Corgi


Sphere


0552565974 £4.95 2,437 0751565362 £5.48 2,305


Macmillan 0230747722 £4.53 2,184 0241309049


1406358780 £3.81 2,124


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan 1447273424 £3.39 2,113 Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan 1447273400 £3.42 2,102 0718197193


£2.67 2,032 Hamish Ham... 0241253588 £16.36 1,954


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan 1447273417 £3.35 1,923 Mike Brownlow; Simon Rickerty Orchard


1405282727 £4.01 1,690 1408338292 £4.42 1,912


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407170718 £4.71 1,759 Julia Donaldson; Sebastien Braun Egmont


1474935975 £4.25 2,636 1474876858


M O’Mara 1782439073 £3.81 2,791 S&S


1471144066 £4.78 2,700


HE FICTION HEATSEEKERS chart features the best- selling titles by authors who have never appeared in the Official UK Top 50 since Nielsen records began in 1998. The 2017 year-to-date Heatseek- ers number one may come as a surprise to readers, not because of the title—who can forget the “Trump bump” for dysto- pian fiction at the start of the year?—but the author. George Orwell has never charted inside the top 50 in the BookScan era, though he’s certainly not alone among classic authors—William Golding, F Scot Fitzgerald and face-of-the-£10-banknote Jane Austen all hold Heatseeker status. This just goes to show how difficult it is for a title to make it into the top 50: a concentrated marketing push is needed. Even Leo Tolstoy only made the grade when War and Peace was adapted for the BBC’s Sunday night schedule last year. Nineteen Eight-Four went all the way to the overall number one in the US, 70 years aſter it


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Francis Spufford’s acclaimed Golden Hill has yet to crack the Official UK Top 50, despite widespread award recognition


was writen, in the week Donald Trump was inaugurated. The echoes of the “Trump bump” were felt in the UK too, though the biggest beneficiary at the time was Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here, the tale of “a vain, outlandish, anti-immigrant,


10th November 2017


Tom Fletcher titles occupy two of the top six positions in the Children’s & YA Fiction list


The chart that’s most oſten home to under- the-radar writers and débutants hoping to break out is led by a household name. Kiera O’Brien reports


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