There’s a new kid in town, or at least, on the list of the Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels in the book channel, based on NPD BookScan data for May (5/5/19-6/1/19) provided to ICv2.

For the second month in a row, the Dog Man monopoly of the top of the chart has been broken by a new book.  In this case, it’s Just Jaime, the third of Terri Libenson’s Emmie & Friends books (the other two are Invisible Emmie and Positively Izzy).  Interestingly, the Big Nate book that charted at number 5 in April is nowhere to be seen in the May Top 20.

Also interesting: Positively Izzy was number 5 on the May 2018 chart (see "May 2018 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels"), just behind the four Dog Man books that were out at that time.  Terri Libenson is doing something right.

Back to 2019: An April release, Kayla Miller’s Camp (the followup to Click), moved up from number 19 to number 13 in May.

It’s still a Graphix-heavy chart: The Scholastic imprint holds 15 of the 20 slots, about the same as usual.  Also worth noting is that only 5 of the 20 titles are 2019 releases.  It’s hard for a new book to get onto the chart, it seems, and even harder to stay there.

NPD BookScan Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels – May 2019 (5/5/19 - 6/1/19)

Rank

Title

Author

Publisher

1

DOG MAN: BRAWL OF THE WILD HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

2

JUST JAIME

TERRI LIBENSON

BALZER & BRAY

3

DOG MAN: LORD OF THE FLEAS HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

4

DOG MAN AND CAT KID HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

5

DOG MAN UNLEASHED HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

6

DOG MAN HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

7

DOG MAN: A TALE OF TWO KITTIES HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

8

DRAMA

RAINA TELGEMEIER

GRAPHIX

9

SMILE

RAINA TELGEMEIER

GRAPHIX

10

WINGS OF FIRE GRAPHIC NOVEL VOL. 2: THE LOST HEIR

TUI T. SUTHERLAND

GRAPHIX

11

GHOSTS

RAINA TELGEMEIER

GRAPHIX

12

PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BOOK 1

DANA SIMPSON

ANDREWS MCMEEL

13

CAMP

KAYLA MILLER

HOUGHTON M

14

SISTERS

RAINA TELGEMEIER

GRAPHIX

15

DOG MAN: THE EPIC COLLECTION: FROM THE CREATOR OF CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

16

THE DRAGONET PROPHECY

TUI T. SUTHERLAND

GRAPHIX

17

NEW KID

JERRY CRAFT

HARPERCOLLINS

18

THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB VOL. 6

GALE GALLIGAN

GRAPHIX

19

THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB VOL. 1

RAINA TELGEMEIER

GRAPHIX

20

A NARWHAL AND JELLY BOOK VOL. 4: NARWHAL'S OTTER FRIEND HC

BEN CLANTON

TUNDRA BOOKS (NY)

Source: The NPD Group/BookScan

For charts of May graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:
May 2019 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels
May 2019 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Superhero, Manga, and Author Graphic Novels

For the charts with the actual sales numbers from NPD BookScan, see these articles on the ICv2 Pro site:
May 2019 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
May 2019 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
May 2019 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Superhero, Manga, and Author Graphic Novels with Actual Numbers

NPD BookScan collects weekly point-of-sale data on print books from over 16,000 locations including e-tailers, chains, mass merchandisers, independent bookstores, and more.  NPD BookScan covers approximately 85% of the U.S. trade print book market.  The ranks on this chart are based on piece sales. Some publishers classify titles that are primarily text, or art books, as graphic novels; we've removed those titles from the ranking above.

For past BookScan Top 20 Graphic Novel lists, see the "BookScan Top 20 GN Index."