SECTOR ANALYSIS
Children’s Indie Retailers’ Top 50 Children’s chart reflects the power of the independent publishing sector
Title 1 Impossible Creatures 2 The Little Book of Jokes for Kids... Author
3 Bunny vs Monkey: The Impossible Pig Jamie Smart 4 Lottie Brooks’s Totally Disastrous... Katie Kirby 5 The World’s Worst Monsters
6 Bunny vs Monkey: Machine Mayhem Jamie Smart 7 Finding Bear
8 A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder 9 Wolf Road 10 Five Survive
HANNAH GOLD ABOVE AND LEVI PINFOLD HAVE THREE TITLES IN THE TOP 22
13 Bunny vs Monkey 14 The 169-Storey Treehouse
Independent publishers feature particulalrly strongly in the chart based on sales through independent bookshops
Tom Tivnan @tomtivnan
T
he Children’s independent bookshop charts consistently, and far more than any other
category, are an example of indies helping indies. Sixteen of the titles on this top 50 are from publishers that are independents—compare that against the five in the Fiction and six in Non-Fiction across these Buyers’ Guides (it’s 20 titles if we conspire in Bloomsbury’s delusion that it is an indie because it is an Independent Publishers Guild member despite it being publicly traded and turning over a quarter of a billion pounds annually). And indie bookshops
support small indies, like second placed The Little Book of Jokes for
Kids of All Ages, from Newcastle’s Zymurgy Publishing. The humour
06 The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Children’s
16 Murder Most Unladylike 17 One Of Us Is Lying
Imprint
K Rundell; T Tomić Bloomsbury –
Zymurgy
ISBN (+978) Format 1408897416 Hardback
1903506318 Paperback
David Fickling 1788453004 Hardback Puffin
H Gold; L Pinfold Holly Jackson A Roberts; K Holly Jackson
11 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s... J K Rowling 12 The Last Bear
H Gold; L Pinfold Jamie Smart
15 Looshkin: Oof! Right in the Puddings! Jamie Smart Robin Stevens
18 Twenty Thousand Fleas Under... 19 No Brainer
20 The Chalice of the Gods 22 The Lost Whale 0241562055 Paperback
D Walliams; A Stower HarperCollins 0008305819 Hardback David Fickling 1788452977 Paperback HarperCollins 0008582012 Hardback Electric Monkey 1405293181 Paperback Simon & Schuster 1398521339 Hardback Electric Monkey 0008507237 Paperback Bloomsbury
1408855652 Paperback A Griffiths; T Denton Macmillan
Karen M McManus Penguin Dav Pilkey Jeff Kinney Rick Riordan
21 Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Ruling... Louie Stowell Walker H Gold; L Pinfold
23 Bunny vs Monkey: Multiverse Mix-up! Jamie Smart 24 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Suzanne Collins Suzanne Collins
25 The Hunger Games
26 Bunny vs Monkey and the Human... Jamie Smart 27 The Baddies 28 The Explorer
29 Sticker Dolly Dressing Rainbow... 30 Skandar and the Unicorn Thief 31 The Very Hungry Caterpillar 32 The Gruffalo
33 The Tiger Who Came to Tea
36 Dog Man 37 Big Shot
Julia Donaldson K Rundell; H Horn F Watt; A Miller A F Steadman Eric Carle
34 Bunny vs Monkey and the League... Jamie Smart 35 The Extremely Embarrassing Life... Katie Kirby Dav Pilkey Jeff Kinney
38 Dormouse Has a Cold 39 The Skull 40 Tyger
41 Bunny vs Monkey: Rise of the... 42 InvestiGators
43 Which Way to Anywhere 44 Rooftoppers
45 With You Every Step 47 Until the Road Ends
48 Which Way Round the Galaxy 49 One of Us is Back
50 Bunny vs Monkey... Aye-aye
HarperCollins 0008411312 Paperback David Fickling 1788451772 Paperback 1529097146 Hardback
David Fickling 1788452939 Paperback Puffin
Scholastic Puffin Puffin
0141369761 Paperback 0141375632 Paperback 1338801910 Hardback 0241583135 Hardback 0241647547 Hardback 1529501230 Paperback
HarperCollins 0008412968 Paperback David Fickling 1788452922 Paperback Scholastic Scholastic
0702309519 Paperback 1407132082 Paperback
David Fickling 1788451956 Paperback Alison Green Bloomsbury Usborne
0702325069 Paperback 1408882191 Paperback 1803707747 Paperback
Simon & Schuster 1398502734 Paperback Puffin Books
Donaldson; Scheffler Macmillan Judith Kerr
Scholastic Puffin
Donaldson; Scheffler Macmillan Jon Klassen
Walker
John Patrick Green Macmillan Cressida Cowell Katherine Rundell K Burrow et al
Hodder
46 The Ministry of Unladylike Activity Robin Stevens Phil Earle
Cressida Cowell
0241003008 Hardback 1509804757 Paperback
HarperCollins 0007215997 Paperback David Fickling 1788452304 Paperback Puffin
0241460887 Paperback 1407140391 Paperback 0241396988 Paperback 1035006908 Hardback 1529509571 Hardback
S F Said; D McKean David Fickling 1788452915 Paperback Jamie Smart
Bloomsbury Macmillan Puffin
Karen M McManus Penguin Jamie Smart
David Fickling 1788452809 Paperback 1529054378 Paperback 1444968217 Paperback 1526624802 Paperback 1035040803 Hardback 0241429877 Paperback
Andersen Press 1839133169 Paperback Hodder
1444968224 Hardback 0241618103 Hardback
David Fickling 1788452434 Paperback
Date range 26 weeks to 18th November 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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