21st March 2025
17,770 Charts Children’s Children’s & YA Fiction 1
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Dougie Poynter & Tom Fletcher ( 1) The Dinosaur That Pooped Easter! Puffin, £7.99, 9780241488812 With just under a month to go until Good Friday, the Easter-themed titles are starting to rise up the charts. The 2023 instalment in the McFly bandmates’ The Dinosaur That Pooped... series is leading the charge with sales of 3,816 copies this week – up 20.4% compared with the previous week. In total, it’s sold 113,212 copies and is the ninth bestselling in the series – though it’s soon likely to overtake the Halloween edition, for at least a few months.
3,816 TCM copies sold
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This Story Is a Lie (WBD)
Benjamin Dean Simon & Schuster, 9781398542679, £0.99
The Soccer Diaries (WBD)
Tom Palmer Rebellion, 9781837864140, £1
The Magic Balloon (WBD)
Carl Anka; Amanda Quartey DK Children, 9780241734612, £1
Geomancer (WBD)
Kiran Millwood Hargrave Orion, 9781510113428, £0.99
The Fart That Broke World Book Day (WBD) 10,426 Stephen Mangan; Anita Mangan Scholastic, 9780702340635, £0.99
6 The Scarlet Shedder Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9780702340291, £6.31 7 Big Jim Begins Dav Pilkey 8 Dog Man Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9781338896459, £8.19 Scholastic, 9781407140391, £8.12 9 Bunny vs Monkey: Bunny Bonanza Jamie Smart David Fickling, 9781788453073, £6.35 10 No Brainer Jeff Kinney Puffin, 9780241583159, £5.08 11 The Reappearance of Rachel Price Holly Jackson Electric Monkey, 9780008507268, £6.40 12 Mothering Heights Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9780702313493, £5.11 13 Grime and Punishment Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9780702310676, £5.52 14 The Adventures of Dog Man 2: Unleashed Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9781407186603, £8.56 15 Grumpfort Jamie Hammond Usborne, 9781835400951, £6.83 Puffin, 9780241460887, £5.60 7,478 5,519 4,773 3,916 3,720 3,574 3,386 3,199 3,129 2,709 16 The Extremely Embarrassing Life of Lottie Brooks Katie Kirby 17 Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9780702330025, £6.62 18 Powerless Lauren Roberts Simon & Schuster, 9781398529489, £5.63 19 Meet the Mubbles Liz Pichon 1 44 Macmillan Children’s, 9781035041695, £5.91 20 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone JK Rowling Bloomsbury Children’s, 9781408855652, £5.19 2,630 2,629 2,489 2,327 2,308 10,979 11,323 11,645 12,788 Pre-school & Picture Books 1
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Tales from Acorn Wood (WBD)
Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan, 9781035059225, £1
Paddington: Farm Escape! (WBD) -
HarperCollins, 9780008714574, £1
Bluey’s Little Book (WBD) -
Ladybird, 9780241734407, £0.99 Pokémon: The Epic Pocket Guide (WBD)
- Farshore, 9780008719814, £0.99
Barbara’s Very Useful Guide to Moods (WBD) 13,114 Nadia Shireen Puffin, 9780241753798, £1
6 The Dinosaur That Pooped Easter! D Poynter & T Fletcher Puffin, 9780241488812, £4.69 7 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle Puffin , 9780241003008, £4.57 Usborne, 9781805072430, £5.17 Puffin, 9780241591246, £4.40 3,816 3,288 8 Sticker Dolly Dressing Easter Egg Hunt F Watt; D Dogliani 9 There’s a Bunny in Your Book Tom Fletcher 10 Rabbit’s Nap Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan Children’s, 9781529023527, £4.09 Bloomsbury Children’s, 9781408889749, £4.28 Macmillan Children’s, 9781529045765, £4.03 3,256 3,047 3,002 11 We're Going on an Egg Hunt Martha Mumford; Laura Hughes 12 Fluffy Chick Rod Campbell Simon & Schuster, 9781398532120, £4.80 2,973 2,957 13 Supertato: Happy Birthday, Nitwit Paul Linnet & Sue Hendra 14 The Tiger Who Came to Tea Judith Kerr 15 Peppa’s Grand Easter Egg Hunt Ladybird, 9780241716786, £4.58 16 Where’s Bluey? Ladybird, 9780241558577, £4.91 17 Dear Zoo Rod Campbell Macmillan Children’s, 9781529074932, £4.62 18 BBC Bluey My Busy Books Phidal, 9782764370278, £7.54 19 Bluey: Hooray, It’s Easter! 20 No More Nappies Ladybird, 9780241669778, £4.54 Campbell Books, 9781509836314, £4.12 HarperCollins Children’s, 9780007215997, £4.60 2,841 2,748 2,625 2,537 2,286 2,264 2,144 2,127 14,170 19,461 20,076 20,457
It’s a dog-eat-dog world in Children’s and YA Fiction, with Dav Pilkey’s The Scarlet Shedder, Big Jim Begins and Dog Man – boasting combined sales of 17,770 – hot on the heels of the World Book Day tranche
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