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The Bestseller Charts Analysis
A post-Easter, springtime mini- resurgence of the January “New Year, new you” trend seemed to be burgeoning, though The Cadbury Mini Eggs Cookbook and Jane Dunn’s Jane’s Patisserie also hit the category chart in the run-up to the bank holiday. The piter of rabbit feet was once again heard in the Children’s top spot, as Martha Mumford and Sarah Jennings’ Five Little Easter Bunnies spent a
Publisher revenues Penguin
HarperCollins Pan Macmillan S&S
Little, Brown Hodder
Bloomsbury Scholastic Vintage Usborne
Children’s: Pre-school Title
1 Five Little Easter Bunnies
£1.79m £1.30m £1.13m £643k £537k £533k £400k £362k £342k £331k
third week in the number one. The school holidays bumped kids’ book sales up by 16% in volume year on year, despite the market as a whole declining. Easter titles performed a near-clean sweep of the Pre-School chart. Dav Pilkey’s Cat Kid Comic Book: On Purpose clawed into the Children’s & YA Fiction number one, with Derek Landy’s latest Skulduggery Pleasant title, Until the End, hiting second.
DR JULIE SMITH’S SELF- DEVELOPMENT GUIDE TACKLES ANXIETY, LOW MOOD AND DEPRESSION
Author; Illustrator M Mumford; S Jennings
2 Supertato: The Great Eggscape! Sue Hendra & Paul Linnet 3 We’re Going on an Egg Hunt 4 Bluey: Easter Fun Activity 5 We’re Going on an Egg Hunt 6 Mole’s Spectacles
7 Little Sticker Dolly... Easter 8 Peppa Pig: Peppa’s Easter...
9 Spot’s First Easter Board Book Eric Hill 10 Easter Magic Painting Book 11 That’s Not My Bunny
13 Fluffy Chick
14 Hey Duggee: Duggee’s Easter 15 Rabbit’s Nap
16 PAW Patrol... Easter Pups! 17 Bluey: The Pool
18 Where’s the Bunny? Imprint ISBN (+978) ASP Volume
Bloomsbury... 1526625120 £4.17 12,171 Simon & Schuster 1398511613 £4.00
Martha Mumford; Laura Hughes Bloomsbury... 1408889749 £4.25 -
Ladybird
Martha Mumford; Laura Hughes Bloomsbury Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan... Fiona Watt; Lizzie Mackay -
Usborne Ladybird Puffin
Abigail Wheatley Fiona Watt; Rachel Wells
12 Peter Rabbit Finger Puppet BookBeatrix Potter Rod Campbell -
Usborne Usborne Warne
Macmillan...
Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan... - -
Farshore Ladybird
Chuck Whelon & Helen Brown Buster
19 Peppa Pig... George’s Dinosaur? - 20 Peekaboo Chick
Camilla Reid
Children’s & YA Fiction Title
Ladybird
0241550588 £3.28 1408870112 £5.98 1529034387 £4.08 1801314862 £3.90 0241543467 £4.84 0723263616 £5.96 1801313612 £4.77 1474988889 £4.18 0723287124 £6.65 1529045765 £4.14
BBC Children’s 1405950725 £3.58 1529023527 £3.78 0755503995 £3.98 0241553732 £4.40 1780555997 £4.93 0241543542 £4.17
Nosy Crow 1839942662 £5.28
9,623 6,836 5,412 4,714 4,685 4,635 4,261 3,478 3,425 3,119 3,118 2,917 2,826 2,696 2,680 2,605 2,536 2,516 2,508
Bucking the usual ‘New Year, new you’ trend, psychologist Dr Julie Smith’s self-help guide continued to sell strongly throughout March
Kiera O’Brien @kieraobrien D Author; Illustrator
1 Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose Dav Pilkey 2 Until the End 3 The Last Bear 4 The Deep End
5 They Both Die at the End 6 Girl in Pieces
7 A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder 8 Code Name Bananas
Derek Landy
Hannah Gold; Levi Pinfold Jeff Kinney
Adam Silvera
Kathleen Glasgow Holly Jackson
9 Never Touch the Grumpy Chicks Rosie Greening 10 One of Us is Lying 11 Big Shot
12 Harry... Philosopher’s Stone 13 Heartstopper Volume One 14 The Danger Gang
16 Ten Tremendous Tales Alice Oseman
15 Dog Man 10: Mothering Heights Dav Pilkey Liz Pichon
18 Harry... Chamber of Secrets 19 You’ll be the Death of Me 20 Loki: A Bad God’s Guide...
20 22nd April 2022
Karen M McManus Louie Stowell
Karen M McManus Jeff Kinney J K Rowling
Imprint Scholastic
ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 1338801941 £6.20
HarperCollins 0008386351 £13.17 HarperCollins 0008411312 £6.41 Puffin
0241396957 £4.76
S&S Children’s 1471166204 £5.83 Oneworld
1780749457 £6.71 Electric Monkey 1405293181 £6.16
David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins 0008471804 £5.18 Make Believe... 1800583870 £4.10 Penguin Puffin
Bloomsbury Tom Fletcher; Shane Devries Puffin
Scholastic Scholastic
0141375632 £5.80 0241396650 £8.42 1408855652 £5.12
Hodder Children’s 1444951387 £10.44 0241407462 £4.49 0702313493 £5.98 0702302534 £5.32
17 Gangsta Granny Strikes Again! David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins 0008262204 £8.26 J K Rowling
Bloomsbury Penguin Walker
1408855669 £4.95 0241473665 £5.72 1406399752 £6.56
5,596 5,314 5,071 4,125 4,092 3,487 3,429 3,255 3,047 2,964 2,895 2,807 2,373 2,326 2,301 2,011 1,990 1,928 1,735 1,713
r Julie Smith hits the Audible monthly top spot for a third month running,
with self-help guide Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? spending March in the audio download number one. While self- help books are no strangers to the Audible ranking, they have in the past tended to be strongly focused on audio’s male demographic, with Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, former US marine David Goggins’ Can’t Hurt Me and Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life all making regular appearances, even years on from publication. However, Dr Smith’s TikTok fame has helped Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
to bestseller status across formats, with 123,814 copies sold so far in hardback (and four non-consecutive weeks at the Hardback Non-fiction number one garnered). James Clear’s Atomic Habits joined it in second place for its
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