27th February 2026
Charts
Chaos reigns supreme: Jamie Smart conquers for a second week
World Book Day titles continue to dominate the charts, with Jamie Smart’s latest Bunny vs Monkey comic leading the charge
W Week ending 21st February 2026
hat is the only thing that can stop the World B o ok Day (WBD) books
claiming a clean sweep of the offi- cial UK Top 10? If you answered Freida McFadden, you are wrong: Dear Debbie has dropped 13 places to 16th position and the thriller writer has a mere five titles in this week’s Top 50. Instead, it is the other dominating
force in NielsenIQ BookData’s Total Consumer Market (TCM) that inter- rupts the £1 books: subscription boxes. FairyLoot’s latest YA sub- box selection, Rachel Griffin’s
The Sun and the Starmaker, is this week’s highest new entry, taking 10th place with 14,416 copies. With positions one to nine filled
with this year’s WBD titles, it does mean at least that the UK Top 10 matches entirely the Children’s and YA Top 10 – a common occurrence at this time of the year, but an otherwise rare achievement. Jamie Smart’s Bunny vs Monkey:
Total Chaos! again proves to be the most popular choice for the UK’s schoolchildren with 32,910 copies picked up, an increase of 34%, to give the comics creator his second consecutive Top 50 number one. But Peppa Pig: One Big Family
has closed the gap by jumping 119% to 29,616 copies. Overall, 231,462 copies of this
year’s list have been exchanged for WBD vouchers in the first full week of the 2026 campaign – that is a week-on-week increase of 80.2%, and 28.2% more than at the same point in 2025, or a jump of more than 50,000 copies. Up and coming author Emily
Brontë achieves her highest chart position – or at least since records began – with the Penguin Classics edition of Wuthering Heights as the film adaptation continues to top the UK box office. The Penguin Classics version takes 19th place with 7,076 units, a 139.4% climb compared to the previous week. In total, 19 different editions of the Gothic novel appear in NielsenIQ’s Top 5,000 titles this week, totalling sales of 21,570 copies, which would be enough to give it fourth place in the overall chart. Paperback editions of Wuthering Heights account for 16,966 copies
Jamie Smart’s Bunny vs Monkey World Book Day offering has proven popular this half term
The Official 1 Bunny vs Monkey: Total… (WBD) Jamie Smart DFB Phoenix, 9781788453929 12 Data
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Key No move New entry Climbing Re-entry Falling
2 Peppa Pig: One Big Family (WBD) Ladybird, 9780241803912 Puffin, 9780241810354
UNI TS 32,811
29,517 3 Chaos at the Choc… (WBD) R Dahl, S Pounder DK Children, 9780241803950 23,601 4 The Big… (WBD) Rose Ayling-Ellis, K Blackburn 5 Pablo and Splash: The… (WBD) S Dempsey Bloomsbury, 9781037200038 Nosy Crow, 9781805139478 21,356 20,981 6 Unicorn Academy: My Secret Unic… (WBD) 7 Funny FACTopia (WBD) Christopher Lloyd What on Earth, 9781804661901 8 Bear Rescue (WBD) Hannah Gold HarperCollins, 9780008792435 Simon & Schuster, 9781398552555 19,807 19,150 17,871 9 Skandar and the Secret… (WBD) AF Steadman 10 The Sun and the Starmaker Rachel Griffin Sourcebooks Fire, 9781464272509 14,659 14,416 11 Unbelievable Football (WBD) Matt Oldfield Wren & Rook, 9781526367822 12 Clean Magic Nancy Birtwhistle One Boat, 9781035084739 13 Local Girl Missing Claire Douglas Penguin, 9781405926393 14 Half City Kate Golden Arcadia, 9781529443684 Usborne, 9781836047018
UNI TS 13,521
13,253 10,937 10,288 15 Pia’s Pet Club: Iguana Escape (WBD) S Patel 16 Dear Debbie Freida McFadden Poisoned Pen Press, 9781464266485 17 Don’t Let Him In Lisa Jewell Little, Brown, 9781408728512 Penguin, 9780141439556 Penguin (Cornerstone), 9781804940266 18 The Housemaid Freida McFadden 19 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë Hot Key, 9781471420009 9,810 8,794 8,598 7,386 7,076 20 Against All Odds (WBD) Nathanael Lessore 7,000
Charts
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