The Wings of Fire adaptations have done well in the past, and the first two volumes have spent a lot of time in the top 20, but this is the highest ranking for this series so far. The continued popularity of the first volume suggests that new readers are still coming to the series.
Boy-Crazy Stacey, the newest Baby-Sitters Club adaptation, moves from number 3 in September to number 5 in October. Like the Wings of Fire books, the Baby-Sitters Club books are frequent fliers in the top 20, and the series does not seem to have lost its appeal when Gale Galligan took over from Raina Telgemeier, the original adaptor.
Finally, there’s a brand-new graphic novel that debuts at number 15: R.J. Palacio’s White Bird: A Wonder Story. While this is Palacio’s first graphic novel, she is a best-selling author of prose YA novels, and this book builds on her successful series Wonder, so it’s likely she has brought some fans over to the comics side.
On the original graphic novel side, Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls tops the chart, with Raina Telgemeier’s Guts right behind it. They may not be lined up in a row in the top rankings, but all the Dog Man books are in the top 20, as they are every month. So are all of Telgemeier’s original graphic novels. Shannon Hale’s Best Friends drops from number 5 in September to number 9. And let’s give a shout-out to Max Brallier’s Last Kids on Earth books, which are a couple of years old but still make the chart on the regular. Two, one from 2015 and one from 2016, are on the October chart.
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NPD BookScan Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels – October 2019 (10/6/19 - 11/2/19) |
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Rank |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
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1 |
DOG MAN: FOR WHOM THE BALL ROLLS HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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2 |
GUTS |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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3 |
THE HIDDEN KINGDOM |
TUI T. SUTHERLAND |
GRAPHIX |
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4 |
DOG MAN: BRAWL OF THE WILD HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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5 |
BOY-CRAZY STACEY |
GALE GALLIGAN |
GRAPHIX |
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6 |
DOG MAN: LORD OF THE FLEAS HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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7 |
DOG MAN HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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8 |
DOG MAN UNLEASHED HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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9 |
BEST FRIENDS |
SHANNON HALE |
FIRST SECOND BOOKS |
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10 |
DOG MAN: A TALE OF TWO KITTIES HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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11 |
DOG MAN AND CAT KID HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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12 |
THE DRAGONET PROPHECY |
TUI T. SUTHERLAND |
GRAPHIX |
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13 |
THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH HC |
MAX BRALLIER |
VIKING BOOKS YR |
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14 |
WINGS OF FIRE GRAPHIC NOVEL #2: THE LOST HEIR |
TUI T. SUTHERLAND |
GRAPHIX |
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15 |
WHITE BIRD: A WONDER STORY HC |
R. J. PALACIO |
ALFRED A. KNOPF BOOKS YR |
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16 |
SMILE |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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17 |
DRAMA |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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18 |
SISTERS |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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19 |
GHOSTS |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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20 |
THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH AND THE ZOMBIE PARADE HC |
MAX BRALLIER |
VIKING BOOKS YR |
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Source: The NPD Group/BookScan |
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For charts of October graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:
October 2019 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels
October 2019 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:
October 2019 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
October 2019 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
October 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."