27th February 2026
32,811 Charts Children’s Children’s & YA Fiction 1
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Fiona Watt ( 1), Rachel Wells That’s Not My… Easter Egg Usborne, £7.99, 9781836043317
As well as half term and the first full week of World Book Day titles, NielsenIQ’s latest TCM data reveals that Easter sales have kicked off – with the latest instalment in Watt’s That’s Not My… series taking one of five Easter-themed slots in the Pre-School and Picture Book Top 20. But Easter Egg is not the highest selling – that honour belongs to the newest release in Watt’s other bestselling series, Sticker Dolly Dressing Easter Party. The five themed books in the latest ranking have sold 12,209 copies between them – much more than in 2025 when Easter fell two weeks later.
2,781 TCM copies sold
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Bunny vs Monkey: Total Chaos! (WBD)
Jamie Smart DFB Phoenix, 9781788453929, £0.99
Chaos at the Chocolate Factory (WBD)
Roald Dahl, Sibéal Pounder Puffin, 9780241810354, £0.99
The Big Bang! (WBD)
Rose Ayling-Ellis, Katie Blackburn DK Children, 9780241803950, £0.99
Pablo and Splash: The Castle Quest (WBD) 20,981 Sheena Dempsey Bloomsbury, 9781037200038, £0.99
Unicorn Academy: My Secret Unicorn… (WBD) 19,807 Nosy Crow Nosy Crow, 9781805139478, £0.99
6 Bear Rescue (WBD) Hannah Gold HarperCollins, 9780008792435, £0.99 7 Skandar and the Secret Element (WBD) AF Steadman Simon & Schuster, 9781398552555, £0.99 8 The Sun and the Starmaker Rachel Griffin Sourcebooks Fire, 9781464272509, £16.94 9 Pia’s Pet Club: Iguana Escape (WBD) Serena Patel Usborne, 9781836047018, £0.99 10 Against All Odds (WBD) Nathanael Lessore Hot Key, 9781471420009, £0.99 11 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess Jeff Kinney Puffin, 9780241583180, £5.36 12 Big Jim Believes Dav Pilkey Puffin, 9780241745168, £9.93 Scholastic, 9780702345234, £8.46 13 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper Jeff Kinney 14 Bunny vs Monkey: Intergalactic Monkey…! Jamie Smart DFB Phoenix, 9781788453271, £8.93 15 Fearless Lauren Roberts Simon & Schuster, 9781398551923, £5.77 16 Donut Squad: Make a Mess! Neill Cameron DFB Phoenix, 9781788453585, £8.14 17 Bunny vs Monkey and the Human Invasion Jamie Smart David Fickling, 9781788451956, £6.54 18 Finn’s Epic Fails Phil Earle Puffin, 9780141324906, £5.76 Simon & Schuster, 9781398546165, £5.92 19 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney 1 32 20 Dog Man Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9781407140391, £6.86 17,871 14,659 14,416 9,810 7,000 6,135 5,776 4,926 4,396 4,076 3,296 3,228 3,210 2,916 2,863 21,356 23,601 32,811 Pre-school & Picture Books 1
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Peppa Pig: One Big Family (WBD)
Peppa Pig Ladybird, 9780241803912, £0.99
Gozzle
Julia Donaldson; Sara Ogilvie Macmillan Children’s, 9781529076424, £5.04
Sticker Dolly Dressing Easter Party
Fiona Watt; Antonia Miller Usborne, 9781835408384, £4.82
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle Puffin, 9780241003008, £4.75
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Judith Kerr HarperCollins Children’s, 9780007215997, £4.78
6 The Detective Dog 10th… Edition J Donaldson; S Ogilvie Macmillan Children's, 9781035084685, £4.43 Usborne, 9781836042624, £4.85 3,205 7 Sticker Dolly Dressing Unicorn Princesses F Watt; D Dogliani 8 The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan Children’s, 9781509804757, £4.80 9 That’s Not My… Easter Egg Fiona Watt; Rachel Wells Usborne, 9781836043317, £4.14 10 Rabbit’s Nap Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan Children’s, 9781529023527, £4.40 11 Where’s Spot? Eric Hill Warne, 9780723263661, £4.86 Walker, 9781406358780, £4.92 2,923 2,869 2,781 2,613 2,343 12 Guess How Much I Love You Sam McBratney; Anita Jeram 13 Jonty Gentoo Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green, 9780702329449, £5.29 14 Zog Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green, 9781407170763, £5.02 Alison Green, 9781407196657, £5.07 Puffin, 9780241488812, £4.86 2,277 2,138 2,045 15 The Smeds and the Smoos Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler 16 The Dinosaur… Easter! D Poynter, T Fletcher; G Parsons 17 Bluey: Hooray, It’s Easter! 18 Dear Zoo Rod Campbell Ladybird, 9780241669778, £4.34 Macmillan Children’s, 9781529074932, £5.16 19 Tabby McTat Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green, 9781407170701, £4.88 Puffin, 9780241768020, £4.86 2,023 1,973 1,954 1,873 1,835 20 Peter Rabbit: Peter’s Easter Slide-and-Seek Beatrix Potter 1,823 All Children’s charts © NielsenIQ BookScan 3,259 3,568 3,678 5,466 29,517
Jamie Smart’s Bunny vs Monkey: Total Chaos! has climbed to the top of the Children’s & YA Fiction chart having benefited from a World Book Day spike in sales
DAVID MONTEITH-LODGE
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Charts Children’s
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