With the release of the newest Dog Man book, Dav Pilkey’s tales of the part dog/part human crimefighter take up fully half of the list of the Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels in the book channel, based on NPD BookScan data for November (12/1/19-1/4/20) provided to ICv2.

Dog Man: Fetch-22, released in early December, takes the top spot, and between the eight individual volumes now out and two boxed sets, Pilkey’s series takes ten spots overall.

Raina Telgemeier’s latest middle-school memoir, Guts, is in the number 3 spot, interrupting a straight run of Dog Man volumes, and her other four original stories are on the chart as well.  So she gets a quarter of the Top 20 pie.

In addition to these, the 18 Graphix volumes in the top 20 include the graphic adaptation of Tui T. Sutherland’s Wings of Fire novels and the latest Baby-Sitters Club adaptation by Gale Galligan.  It is good to be a Scholastic imprint!

The two non-Graphix titles, Shannon Hale’s Best Friends and Max Brallier’s The Last Kids on Earth, are both top-20 perennials as well.  In fact, this chart looks very similar to last month’s (see "November 2019 BookScan – Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels"), with the new Dog Man book bumping out one of the Wings of Fire volumes.

NPD BookScan Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels – December 2019 (12/3/19 - 1/4/20)

Rank

Title

Author

Publisher

1

DOG MAN: FETCH-22 HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

2

DOG MAN: FOR WHOM THE BALL ROLLS HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

3

GUTS

RAINA TELGEMEIER

GRAPHIX

4

DOG MAN: BRAWL OF THE WILD HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

5

DOG MAN: LORD OF THE FLEAS HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

6

DOG MAN HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

7

DOG MAN AND CAT KID HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

8

DOG MAN UNLEASHED HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

9

DOG MAN: A TALE OF TWO KITTIES HC

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

10

BEST FRIENDS

SHANNON HALE

FIRST SECOND BOOKS

11

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

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

12

DRAMA

RAINA TELGEMEIER

GRAPHIX

13

THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB: BOY-CRAZY STACEY

GALE GALLIGAN

GRAPHIX

14

THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH HC

MAX BRALLIER

VIKING BOOKS YR

15

SMILE

RAINA TELGEMEIER

GRAPHIX

16

SISTERS

RAINA TELGEMEIER

GRAPHIX

17

WINGS OF FIRE GRAPHIC NOVEL #3: THE HIDDEN KINGDOM

TUI T. SUTHERLAND

GRAPHIX

18

GHOSTS

RAINA TELGEMEIER

GRAPHIX

19

DOG MAN: THE SUPA EPIC COLLECTION (BOX SET)

DAV PILKEY

GRAPHIX

20

THE DRAGONET PROPHECY

TUI T. SUTHERLAND

GRAPHIX

Source: The NPD Group/BookScan

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

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


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."