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.
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NPD BookScan Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels – May 2019 (5/5/19 - 6/1/19) |
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Rank |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
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1 |
DOG MAN: BRAWL OF THE WILD HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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2 |
JUST JAIME |
TERRI LIBENSON |
BALZER & BRAY |
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3 |
DOG MAN: LORD OF THE FLEAS HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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4 |
DOG MAN AND CAT KID HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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5 |
DOG MAN UNLEASHED HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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6 |
DOG MAN HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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7 |
DOG MAN: A TALE OF TWO KITTIES HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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8 |
DRAMA |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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9 |
SMILE |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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10 |
WINGS OF FIRE GRAPHIC NOVEL VOL. 2: THE LOST HEIR |
TUI T. SUTHERLAND |
GRAPHIX |
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11 |
GHOSTS |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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12 |
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BOOK 1 |
DANA SIMPSON |
ANDREWS MCMEEL |
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13 |
CAMP |
KAYLA MILLER |
HOUGHTON M |
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14 |
SISTERS |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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15 |
DOG MAN: THE EPIC COLLECTION: FROM THE CREATOR OF CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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16 |
THE DRAGONET PROPHECY |
TUI T. SUTHERLAND |
GRAPHIX |
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17 |
NEW KID |
JERRY CRAFT |
HARPERCOLLINS |
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18 |
THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB VOL. 6 |
GALE GALLIGAN |
GRAPHIX |
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19 |
THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB VOL. 1 |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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20 |
A NARWHAL AND JELLY BOOK VOL. 4: NARWHAL'S OTTER FRIEND HC |
BEN CLANTON |
TUNDRA BOOKS (NY) |
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Source: The NPD Group/BookScan |
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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."