Caution: Hot Press – Indie Bestsellers

It never ceases to amaze me which children’s books refuse to gather moss. Below are the independent bestsellers from the week ending February 17. Click on each list title to see the list in its entirety.

Children’s Interest

The “Wimpy Kid” books continue to top the charts, with some recent award winners (“Part-Time Indian”, “Hugo Cabret”) in the mix as well. In my eyes a thoroughly agreeable bunch.

Children’s Illustrated

“Gallop!” maintains as the top seller this week, holding off Fancy Nancy’s bid for world domination for at least one more week. Publishers Weekly just ran the following “Behind the Bestsellers” piece on “Gallop!”:

Gallop! shot out of the gate last December, and hasn’t slowed down. It was the first-ever children’s book acquisition for Raquel Jaramillo, director of children’s books at Workman. The book utilizes a patented technology called Scanimation to animate the movements of several animals as the page is turned. More than 800,000 copies are in print, after 14 printings. And creator Rufus Butler Seder is hard at work on a followup, Swing!, using the same technology, this time featuring people in motion. (Publishers Weekly Children’s Bookshelf February 21, 2008)

Children’s Fiction Series

I don’t know much about the “Twilight” series (a bit to YA for my K-6 tastes), but the others are consistently in demand in the school libraries where I work.

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