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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


jumped by more than 4,000 copies sold week on week last July, when driving tests returned following Lockdown 1.0. Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man 10: Mothering Heights once again claimed the Children’s top spot, as Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks’ What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside breezed into the Pre-school top spot. The 2018 edition of Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone climbed into


Publisher revenues Penguin


HarperCollins Pan Macmillan Ebury


Bloomsbury Cornerstone Hodder S&S


Little, Brown Vintage


Children’s: Pre-school Title


1 What the Ladybird Heard... 2 The Smeds and the Smoos 3 Supertato: Bubbly Troubly 4 Dear Zoo 5 Superworm


8 The Very Hungry Caterpillar 9 Zog and the Flying Doctors


£1.34m £974k £946k £422k £395k £356k £319k £313k £295k £289k


11th place in Children’s & YA Fiction, as the fantasy Young Adult title’s adaptation dropped on Netflix. Adam Silvera’s BookTok-boosted They Both Die at the End (see Author Interview, pp34–35) remained the YA bestseller, though, once again maintaining third place in the overall kids’ chart. The top four titles in the Children’s & YA Fiction remained from last week, as no new entries hit the chart.


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Titles by LGBTQ+ authors fared well in the BookScan charts in 2020, led by Pinch of Nom, Adam Kay and Douglas Stuart’s Booker winner


Kiera O’Brien @kieraobrien Author; Illustrator Imprint Julia Donaldson; Lydia Monks Macmillan...


ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 1529023152 £4.48


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407196657 £4.38 Sue Hendra & Paul Linnet S&S Children’s Rod Campbell Macmillan...


1471189210 0230747722


6 Peppa Pig: Peppa’s Mermaid... - Ladybird 7 Hey Duggee: The Potty Badge - BBC Children’s Eric Carle Puffin


10 The Dinosaur... Pooped a Pirate T Fletcher, D Poynter; G Parsons Red Fox Craig Smith; Katz Cowley Scholastic Tom Fletcher; Greg Abbott Puffin Eric Hill Warne Rod Campbell Macmillan...


11 The Grinny Granny Donkey 12 There’s a Wolf in Your Book... 13 Where’s Spot? 14 Look After Us 15= Stick Man 15= Zog


17 Ten Minutes... Unicorn’s Birthday R Fielding; C Chatterton Ladybird 18 The Highway Rat 19 Tiddler


20 The Ugly Five


Children’s & YA Fiction Title


4 


£4.78 £4.36


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407170725 £4.48 0241412084 1405948036 0241003008


£4.07 £3.07 £5.28


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407173504 £4.44 1782955443 £4.42 0702304279 0241492819 0723263661 1529045741


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407170718 £4.43 Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407170763 £4.28 0241453162


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407170732 £4.45 Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407170756 £4.50 Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407184630 £4.28


£4.45 £1.00 £4.38 £4.27


£4.34


3,307 2,066 2,022 1,895 1,865 1,758 1,751 1,604 1,589 1,553 1,493 1,458 1,456 1,398 1,336 1,336 1,313 1,244 1,189 1,186


K


ay Featherstone and Kate Allinson’s Pinch of Nom series tops the ranking


of titles by LGBTQ+ authors for the full year 2020, with the food bloggers’ Pinch of Nom: Everyday Light, released in December 2019, in the number one spot (and third for the overall chart). The slimming cookbook sequel, which spent the first five weeks of last year in the weekly number one, sold more than 200,000 copies in that time—on top of the near- quarter of a million it sold in the last few weeks of 2019. Featherstone and Allinson may


Author; Illustrator 1 Dog Man 10: Mothering Heights Dav Pilkey Imprint Scholastic


2 Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome... Jeff Kinney Puffin 3 They Both Die at the End Fing


7 The Day I Fell Into a Fairytale


10 Code Name Bananas 11 Shadow and Bone


13 Wrecking Ball


16 The Deep End 17 The Explorer


Adam Silvera S&S Children’s David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins


5 Harry... the Philosopher’s Stone J K Rowling Bloomsbury 6 Tom Gates 18: Ten Tremendous... Liz Pichon Scholastic Ben Miller S&S Children’s


8 The Beast of Buckingham Palace David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins 9 The Boy at the Back of the Class Onjali Q Rauf Orion Children’s David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins Leigh Bardugo Orion Children’s


12 Harry... the Chamber of Secrets J K Rowling Bloomsbury Jeff Kinney Puffin


14 The 130-Storey Treehouse


15 Harry... the Prisoner of Azkaban J K Rowling Bloomsbury Jeff Kinney Puffin


18 Harry... the Goblet of Fire 19 One of Us is Lying


30 30th April 2021


ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 1338680454 0241530399 1471166204


£7.18 £7.10 £6.53


0008349110 £4.55 1408855652 0702302527 1471192449


£5.06 £7.33 £4.41


0008438708 £4.84 1510105010


0008305833 £8.52 1510105249 1408855669 0241396926


£6.98 £4.51 £4.57


20 Harry... the Order of the Phoenix J K Rowling Bloomsbury


Andy Griffiths; Terry Denton Macmillan... 1529045932 £5.14 1408855676 0241396643 1408882191 1408855683 0141375632 1408855690


Katherine Rundell Bloomsbury... J K Rowling Bloomsbury Karen M. McManus Penguin


£4.56 £7.64 £6.49 £4.74 £5.68 £4.61


£4.66


be the most successful couple in BookScan history, with the co-authors shifting 2.5 million books, for £23.8m, to date. Their début, Pinch of Nom, is the fastest-selling non-fiction title since records began, after selling 210,506 copies in three days upon publication in March 2019. Fellow slimming recipe


3,385 3,099 2,761 2,332 2,164 2,017 1,947 1,741 1,681 1,675 1,562 1,522 1,519 1,467 1,452 1,384 1,304 1,301 1,229 1,167


bloggers, married couple James and Paul Anderson, had similar success with Twochubbycubs: The Cookbook and follow-up Twochubbycubs: Fast and Filling, which dominated the January 2021 charts. The former, released two days into 2020, fell just outside the LGBT authors top 10. Douglas


Stuart’s début, Shuggie Bain,


soared up the charts following its Booker Prize win in November 2020, hitting 32nd place in the overall annual ranking. As its win was announced during a period of lockdown in the UK, the hardback’s total print sales


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