SECTOR ANALYSIS
Children’s Indie Retailers’ Top 50 World Book Day titles dominated the chart with Spider-Man coming out on top
Title
1 Marvel Spider-Man...WBD 2023 2 The Strangeworlds... WBD 2023 3 You Choose Your... WBD 2023
Author Imprint
Catherine Saunders DK Children L D Lapinski
P Goodhart; N Sharratt Puffin
ISBN (+978) Format 0241619247 Paperback
Orion Children’s 1510111837 Paperback 0241618882 Paperback
4 Dave Pigeon Bookshop... WBD 2023 S Haddow; S Dempsey Faber & Faber 0571380329 Paperback 5 A Dragon Realm WBD 2023 6 Kay’s Brilliant Brains: WBD 2023 7 Billy’s Bravery: WBD 2023
Katie & Kevin Tsang Simon & Schuster 1398523098 Paperback A Kay; H Paker Tom Percival
Puffin Bloomsbury 10 Boot It!: World Book Day 2023
JAMIE SMART’S BUNNY VS MONKEY TITLES WERE A HIT WITH READERS
World Book Day titles secured all 10 places at the top of the children’s independent retailer chart, led by a Marvel Spiderman tie-in
Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien
W
orld Book Day dominates the top 10 of the
independent booksellers’
Children’s chart for January to June 2023, with Catherine Saunders’ Marvel Spider-Man Pocket Guide swinging into the number one. This was a change from the Total Consumer Market-wide kids’ chart, which crowned Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharrat’s You Choose Your Adventure, despite Marvel Spider-Man Pocket Guide securing the overall number one spot for World Book Day week. There were just under 3,000 copies between the web-slinging pocket guide and the
choose-your-own-adventure book in the TCM, yet the proportionate gap
06 The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Children’s
Red Shed Old Barn
0241624425 Paperback 1526658784 Paperback
8 Bedtime for the Burpee... WBD 2023 J Wicks; P Howard HarperCollins 0008588649 Paperback 9 Lifesize Creepy Crawlies: WBD 2023 Sophy Henn A M Dassu
0008591304 Paperback 1910646830 Paperback
11 Bunny vs Monkey: Multiverse Mix-up! Jamie Smart 12 The Boy With Wings... WBD 2023 13 Dog Man 11: Twenty Thousand... 14 The Little Book of Jokes for Kids... 15 Being an Ally: WBD 2023 16 The Bowerbird 17 The Lost Whale 18 The Baddies
19 Diper Överlöde 20 Big Shot
21 Bunny vs Monkey
23 Skandar and the Unicorn Thief 24 The Last Bear
25 Murder Most Unladylike
26 A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder 27 Harry... Philosopher’s Stone 28 The Gruffalo
L Henry; K Ferrell Dav Pilkey -
David Fickling 1788452922 Paperback Macmillan Scholastic Zymurgy
S Bourne & DA Levy DK Children J Donaldson; C Rayner Macmillan H Gold; L Pinfold
Puffin Puffin
1035015924 Paperback 1338801910 Hardback 1903506318 Paperback 0241619254 Paperback 1529092240 Hardback
Donaldson; Scheffler Alison Green Jeff Kinney Jeff Kinney Jamie Smart
22 Bunny vs Monkey: Machine Mayhem Jamie Smart A F Steadman H Gold; L Pinfold Robin Stevens Holly Jackson J K Rowling
29 Looshkin: Oof! Right in the Puddings! Jamie Smart 30 Bunny vs Monkey and the Human... Jamie Smart Jamie Smart Dav Pilkey Eric Carle
31 Bunny vs Monkey: Rise of the... 32 Dog Man
33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar 34 Looshkin: The Maddest Cat... 35 Bunny vs Monkey and the... 36 Skandar and the Phantom Rider 37 Bunny vs Monkey and the.... 38 The Explorer
39 The Tiger Who Came to Tea 40 One Of Us Is Lying 41 Saving Neverland
42 Montgomery Bonbon: Murder...
45 There’s a Beast in the Basement! 46 Zog
47 Paddington’s Easter Egg Hunt 48 The Hunger Games 49 King’s Pants 50 Rooftoppers
Jamie Smart Jamie Smart A F Steadman Jamie Smart
Katherine Rundell Judith Kerr
HarperCollins 0008412968 Paperback 0702303517 Hardback 0241583081 Hardback 0241396988 Paperback
David Fickling 1788451772 Paperback David Fickling 1788452854 Hardback Simon & Schuster 1398502734 Paperback HarperCollins 0008411312 Paperback Puffin
0141369761 Paperback
Electric Monkey 1405293181 Paperback Bloomsbury
Donaldson; Scheffler Macmillan
1408855652 Paperback 1509804757 Paperback
David Fickling 1788452939 Paperback David Fickling 1788451956 Paperback David Fickling 1788452809 Paperback Scholastic Puffin
David Fickling 1788452557 Paperback David Fickling 1788452304 Paperback Simon & Schuster 1398502918 Hardback David Fickling 1788452434 Paperback Bloomsbury
1408882191 Paperback
Karen M McManus Penguin Abi Elphinstone
Puffin
43 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Suzanne Collins 44 Robodog
Alasdair Beckett-King Walker Scholastic
HarperCollins 0007215997 Paperback 0141375632 Paperback 0241473320 Hardback 1529501049 Paperback 0702309519 Paperback
D Walliams; A Stower HarperCollins 0008469559 Hardback P Butchart & Elisabette Nosy Crow 1839940514 Paperback Donaldson; Scheffler Alison Green
Scholastic Andersen
1407170763 Paperback
M Bond; R W Alley HarperCollins 0008519377 Paperback Suzanne Collins Nicholas Allan
Katherine Rundell Bloomsbury
1407132082 Paperback 1839133626 Paperback 1526624802 Paperback
Date range January to June 2023. Unless otherwise stated, charts use data from Nielsen BookScan Total Consumer Market, representing print book sales through around 6,500 retailers. Any title discounted by more than 74.5% is ineligible for inclusion.
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