What’s Selling? The Best Selling Children’s Books of the Week

Paywall, schmaywall – I’m screenshotting the New York Times best selling books of the week so we can talk about them. First up, picture books:
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Can you tell it’s back-to-school time? The books on this list make it clear. There’s one book on the list I hadn’t seen before: See You Later, Alligator!
And now on to middle grade.
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A lot of familiar faces – none more so than Wonder, still hanging out in the number one spot after years on the list. And how about Alan Gratz? Guy is taking up a full 30% of the list with Refugee, Heroes, and Resist.
Anything jump out to you?
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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