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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


number one, bringing the Kiwi author-illustrator duo’s haul to 20 for 2019. Their first hit, The Wonky Donkey, maintained third place, with Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s The Smeds and the Smoos in second.


Elsewhere in the Pre-school


chart it was Christmas-jumper, Mariah-Carey-at-full-volume, round-the-clock-flashing-lights levels of festive, with almost every single title in the top


Publisher revenues Penguin


HarperCollins Pan Macmillan Ebury


Hodder


Transworld Cornerstone Bloomsbury Vintage Orion


Children’s: Pre-school Title


1 The Dinky Donkey


2 The Smeds and the Smoos 3 The Wonky Donkey 4 Where’s Wally? Santa... 5 Dear Santa


6 The Jolly Christmas Postman 7 We’re Going on an Elf Chase 8 The Dinosaur That Pooped... 9 The Crayons’ Christmas


11 Where’s the Unicorn? 12 The Tiger Who Came to Tea


£4.66m £3.58m £2.85m £2.31m £1.77m £1.26m £1.05m £1.04m £1.03m £876k


20 a Christmas one. Martin Handford’s Where’s Wally? Santa Spectacular rose to fourth place, with Judith Kerr’s The Tiger Who Came to Tea—the adaptation of which forms the lynchpin of Channel 4’s Christmas Eve scheduling—charting 12th. Other seasonal hits included Martha Mumford and Laura Hughes’ We’re Going on an Elf Chase, and Ian Whybrow and Axel Scheffler’s The Christmas Bear.


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Only two novels were picked seven times as books of the year by national newspapers—and both were by BAME writers


Kiera O’Brien @kieraobrien Author; Illustrator Imprint Craig Smith; Katz Cowley Scholastic


ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 1407198514


£4.61


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407188898 £6.96 Craig Smith; Katz Cowley Scholastic Martin Handford Walker Rod Campbell Macmillan Allan Ahlberg; Janet Ahlberg Puffin Mumford; Hughes Bloomsbury Fletcher & Poynter; Parsons Red Fox


1407195575 1406378634 1447223818


10 Peppa Pig: Peppa’s Christmas... - Ladybird Schrey, Marx; Moran Michael O’Mara Judith Kerr HarperCollins


13 Peppa Pig: Peppa’s Frosty... - Ladybird 14 How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Dr Seuss 15 The Christmas Bear


16 The Snail and the Whale... 17 The Night Before the Night...


19 Dear Zoo 20 Where’s Spot? HarperCollins


Whybrow; Scheffler Macmillan Donaldson; Scheffler Macmillan


£4.49 £3.30 £4.21


0141340111 £9.39 1526606303


1849417792 £4.19


Drew Daywalt; Oliver Jeffers HarperCollins 0008180362 £8.22 0241371589 1782439073 0007215997 0241417669 0007365548 1509806966 1529017205


18 Roblox Where’s the Noob? - Egmont Rod Campbell Macmillan Eric Hill Warne


Children’s & YA Fiction Title


1 The Beast of Buckingham... 2 Wrecking Ball


3 The Secret Commonwealth 4 The Christmasaurus...


5 The World’s Worst Teachers 6 The Christmasaurus


7 Harry Potter and the Goblet... 8 La Belle Sauvage


10 Harry Potter Box Set 11 The Midnight Gang 12 Bad Dad


Kes Gray; Claire Powell Hodder Children’s 1444939231 1405294638 0230747722 0723263661


£3.78 £3.18 £4.50 £4.73 £4.51 £4.06 £4.84 £4.05 £6.09 £4.55 £4.14


£4.32


13,179 9,493 8,498 6,641 6,325 5,978 5,881 5,695 5,010 4,934 4,846 4,834 4,802 4,469 3,964 3,638 3,586 3,464 3,224 3,217


F


ive titles have tied for the critics’ choice for 2019 book of the year, with Booker-


winner Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other among those to receive seven picks from the broadsheets’ review sections. This year, 11 publications—the Sunday Times, the Times, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, New Statesman, the Irish Times, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, Evening Standard and the TLS—have made 1,129 picks for their books of the year, crowning 818 separate books, through The Bookseller’s reviews curation and aggregation service Books in the Media. Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel


Author; Illustrator Imprint


David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins Jeff Kinney Puffin


Philip Pullman Penguin & DFB Tom Fletcher; Shane Devries Puffin


David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins Tom Fletcher; Shane Devries Puffin J K Rowling; Jim Kay Bloomsbury Philip Pullman Penguin & DFB


9 Spectacular School Trip (Really) Liz Pichon Scholastic J K Rowling Bloomsbury David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins


13 The Taylor TurboChaser 16 


14 The Night I Met Father Christmas Ben Miller et al S&S 15 Gangsta Granny Fing


17 Harry Potter and the... Stone


19 What Not to Do If... Invisible 20 Grandpa’s Great Escape


38 13th December 2019


David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins J K Rowling Bloomsbury


ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 0008262174 £6.85 0241396636 0241373330


£6.04 £12.19


103,949 33,385 14,011


0241338520 £7.26 13,230 0008305789 £7.64 0141373348 £4.22 1408845677 0241365854 1407186726 1408856772


£17.17 £5.43 £7.75


£26.34


0008164621 £4.28 0008164669 £4.51


David Baddiel; Steven Lenton HarperCollins 0008334154 £5.76 1471171543


£4.24


0007371464 £4.34 0008342579 £7.22 1408855652


18 Enid Blyton’s Christmas Stories Enid Blyton Hodder Children’s 1444922578 Ross Welford HarperCollins David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins


0008156350


£4.91 £4.19 £3.60


0008183424 £4.39


11,075 7,327 7,247 6,799 6,706 5,716 5,364 4,996 4,721 4,632 4,316 4,276 4,193 3,973 3,939 3,838


Boys was the only fiction title to join Girl, Woman, Other at the top of the chart, with non-fiction titles Robert McFarlane’s Underland, Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women and William Feaver’s The Lives of Lucien Freud also racking up seven picks apiece. Evaristo became the first


black woman to win the Booker Prize earlier this year, jointly with Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, with reviewers describing the novel as “spar- kling”, “wonder- ful” and “uniquely beautiful”, with its pared-down use of punctua- tion praised for


“giving the novel its buoyancy”. The Nickel Boys, Whitehead’s follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- winning The Underground Railroad, was declared by the Sunday Times as “the richest fictional experience of 2019 so


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