11th April 2025
23,288 Charts Children’s Children’s & YA Fiction 1
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Mikey Please The Café at the Edge of the Woods HarperCollins, £7.99, 9780008639013
The Café at the Edge of the Woods is one of the few titles in the Children’s Top 20 this week that is not Easter-related. First published in September 2024, sales had reached 8,714 copies when it was named the winner of this year’s Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. Volume has skyrocketed since: up 390.6% to 1,771 units in the week of the announcement, increasing another 81.3% to 3,212 copies this week as it takes a slot in the retailer’s Book of the Month promotion. The Expanded Earth – Please’s debut adult novel published by Corsair at the beginning of April – sold 658 copies this week.
3,212 TCM copies sold
Sunrise on the Reaping
Suzanne Collins Scholastic, 9780702340574, £13.07
Where Shadows Meet
Patrice Caldwell Hot Key, 9781471417337, £20
The Scarlet Shedder Dav Pilkey
Scholastic, 9780702340291, £6.34
Big Jim Begins Dav Pilkey
Scholastic, 9781338896459, £8.68 Bunny vs Monkey: Bunny Bonanza
Jamie Smart David Fickling, 9781788453073, £6.25
6 Mothering Heights Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9780702313493, £5.25 7 No Brainer Jeff Kinney 8 Dog Man Dav Pilkey Puffin, 9780241583159, £5.15 Scholastic, 9781407140391, £8.12 9 Grime and Punishment Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9780702310676, £5.46 10 Powerless Lauren Roberts 11 Hot Mess Jeff Kinney Puffin, 9780241583166, £9.92 12 Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9780702330025, £6.51 13 The Reappearance of Rachel Price Holly Jackson Electric Monkey, 9780008507268, £6.69 14 The Adventures of Dog Man 2: Unleashed Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9781407186603, £8.74 15 Reckless Lauren Roberts Simon & Schuster, 9781398530126, £5.89 16 Brawl of the Wild Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9781407191942, £6.34 17 The Extremely Embarrassing…Lottie Brooks Katie Kirby Puffin, 9780241460887, £5.34 18 Agent Stitch: A Study in Slime Autumn, 9781835447178, £4.43 19 Bunny vs Monkey: The Great Big Glitch Jamie Smart David Fickling, 9781788453080, £9.68 20 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone JK Rowling Bloomsbury Children’s, 9781408855652, £5.42 28 Simon & Schuster , 9781398529489, £5.68 2,986 2,928 2,844 2,795 2,669 2,552 2,459 2,316 2,269 2,022 2,001 1,859 1,846 1,794 1,774 3,203 4,573 5,993 10,143 23,288 Pre-school & Picture Books 1
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Gozzle
Julia Donaldson; Sara Ogilvie Macmillan Children's, 9781529076417, £8.21
The Dinosaur that Pooped Easter!
Dougie Poynter, Tom Fletcher; Garry Parsons Puffin, 9780241488812, £4.70
Sticker Dolly Dressing Easter Egg Hunt
Fiona Watt; Daniela Dogliani Usborne, 9781805072430, £4.93
There’s a Bunny in Your Book
Tom Fletcher Puffin, 9780241591246, £4.24
We're Going on an Egg Hunt
Martha Mumford; Laura Hughes Bloomsbury Children's, 9781408889749, £4.31
6 Fluffy Chick Rod Campbell Puffin, 9780241687598, £4.45 Macmillan Children's, 9781529045765, £4.09 7 Peter Rabbit: The Easter Bunny Hunt Beatrix Potter 8 Bluey: Hooray, It’s Easter! Ladybird, 9780241669778, £4.20 9 Paddington’s Easter Egg Hunt M Bond, Karen Jankel HarperCollins, 9780008519377, £4.70 10 Peppa’s Grand Easter Egg Hunt Ladybird, 9780241716786, £4.71 11 Five Little Easter Bunnies M Mumford; Sarah Jennings Bloomsbury, 9781526625120, £4.18 12 Rabbit's Nap J Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan Children's, 9781529023527, £3.73 13 Where's Stitch? Bonnier Books, 9781835872932, £4.30 14 The Café at the Edge… Mikey Please HarperCollins, 9780008639013, £6.78 15 We're Going on an Egg Hunt M Mumford; L Hughes Bloomsbury, 9781408870112, £5.18 16 Bunny vs Monkey…Puzzles Jamie Smart DFB Phoenix, 9781788453509, £5.34 17 Easter Bunny… Dawn McMillan; Ross Kinnaird Scholastic, 9780702339677, £3.90 18 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle Puffin, 9780241003008, £4.54 19 Spot’s Easter Fun Eric Hill Puffin, 9780241716151, £4.81 20 The Easter Egg Hunt Nick Butterworth HarperCollins, 9780008695019, £4.72 5,103 5,006 4,600 4,425 3,806 3,689 3,370 3,328 3,212 2,898 2,751 2,517 2,500 2,261 2,174 5,457 5,708 6,713 6,716 8,127
Suzanne Collins rules with her latest release Sunrise on the Reaping, which expands The Hunger Games universe – and secures her a top spot in this week’s charts, with 23,288 copies sold
Out next week
Charts Children’s
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