For the second month in a row, Raina Telgemeier’s Ghosts does not appear on the list. Another title that has been appearing monthly, Wings of Fire, has also slipped out of the top 20, and the sixth volume of Judd Winick’s Hilo, which debuted at number 9 last month, is also gone.
The two new titles on the list are the latest Big Nate book and John Patrick Green’s InvestiGators. Big Nate is beloved by middle-graders, and new volumes always make the top 20 but seldom stay there for more than a month or two. InvestiGators is fresh and funny, but close enough to Dog Man that it will appeal to many of the same readers; the second book in the series (three are planned) is scheduled for September 2020.
FGTeeV Presents: Into the Game, a YouTube tie-in, is back on the chart for the third month in a row, as is Karen’s Witch, the first in a series of Baby-Sitters Little Sister graphic novels geared toward a younger set of readers than the original Baby-Sitters Club books.
What’s left, of course, is plenty of Dog Man, with all eight volumes making the chart, as usual, as well as the remaining four Telgemeier original graphic novels and some other assorted volumes. In terms of market share, 14 of the top 20 titles are from Graphix, two are from HarperCollins, and Andrews McMeel, Macmillan, First Second Books, and Viking have one each.
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NPD BookScan Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels – March 2020 (3/1/20 - 4/4/20) |
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Rank |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
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1 |
DOG MAN: FETCH-22 HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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2 |
DOG MAN: FOR WHOM THE BALL ROLLS HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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3 |
GUTS |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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4 |
DOG MAN: BRAWL OF THE WILD HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
|
5 |
THE BABY-SITTERS LITTLE SISTER GN VOL. 1: KAREN'S WITCH |
ANN M. MARTIN |
GRAPHIX |
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6 |
DOG MAN: LORD OF THE FLEAS HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
|
7 |
FGTEEV PRESENTS: INTO THE GAME! HC |
FGTEEV |
HARPERCOLLINS |
|
8 |
DOG MAN UNLEASHED HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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9 |
DOG MAN AND CAT KID HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
|
10 |
BIG NATE: BLOW THE ROOF OFF! |
LINCOLN PEIRCE |
ANDREWS MCMEEL |
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11 |
DOG MAN HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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12 |
BEST FRIENDS |
SHANNON HALE |
MACMILLAN |
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13 |
DOG MAN: A TALE OF TWO KITTIES HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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14 |
DRAMA |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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15 |
INVESTIGATORS HC |
JOHN PATRICK GREEN |
FIRST SECOND |
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16 |
NEW KID |
JERRY CRAFT |
HARPERCOLLINS |
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17 |
THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB VOL. 7 |
GALE GALLIGAN |
GRAPHIX |
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18 |
SMILE |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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19 |
THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH HC |
MAX BRALLIER |
VIKING BOOKS YR |
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20 |
SISTERS |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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Source: The NPD Group/BookScan |
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For charts of March graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:
March 2020 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels
March 2020 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels
For the charts with the actual sales numbers from NPD BookScan, see these articles on the ICv2 Pro site:
March 2020 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
March 2020 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
March 2020 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."
