Last month we saw a seismic change when Katy Farina’s Baby-Sitters Little Sister: Karen’s Roller Skates knocked Dog Man out of the top slot (see “July 2020 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels”). Karen’s Roller Skates is the second volume of a Baby-Sitters Club spinoff aimed at younger readers.
This month, Dog Man: Fetch 22 (the most recent Dog Man book) is back in the #1 spot, but the unbroken string of Dog Man titles at the top of the list is gone. Interestingly, they are not being dislodged by new books but by Jerry Craft’s New Kid and Raina Telgemeier’s Guts and Smile, all of which have been around for a while. While these are all worthy books, the fact that they are replacing Dog Man titles suggests that the latter either is saturating its market at last or is simply declining in popularity a bit. Not a lot, obviously, as all eight Dog Man books are still in the top 12.
There were no August releases on this month’s chart, and only two July books: Karen’s Roller Skates and Kayla Miller’s Act, the third in her series of graphic novels about sixth-grader Olive Branche. As we mentioned last month, Miller’s books sell pretty steadily, and this one, in which Olive runs for student council on a social-justice platform, seems particularly timely.
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NPD BookScan Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels – August 2020 (8/2/20 - 8/29/20) |
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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 |
NEW KID HC |
JERRY CRAFT |
HARPERCOLLINS |
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3 |
GUTS |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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4 |
DOG MAN: FOR WHOM THE BALL ROLLS HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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5 |
BABY-SITTERS LITTLE SISTER: KAREN'S ROLLER SKATES |
KATY FARINA |
GRAPHIX |
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6 |
DOG MAN: BRAWL OF THE WILD HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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7 |
DOG MAN UNLEASHED HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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8 |
DOG MAN: LORD OF THE FLEAS HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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9 |
DOG MAN HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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10 |
DOG MAN AND CAT KID HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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11 |
SMILE |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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12 |
DOG MAN: A TALE OF TWO KITTIES HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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13 |
SISTERS |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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14 |
FGTEEV PRESENTS: INTO THE GAME! HC |
FGTEEV |
HARPERCOLLINS |
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15 |
DRAMA |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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16 |
THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH HC |
MAX BRALLIER |
VIKING BOOKS |
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17 |
BECOMING BRIANNA |
TERRI LIBENSON |
BALZER + BRAY |
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18 |
ACT |
KAYLA MILLER |
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN |
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19 |
GHOSTS |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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20 |
BEST FRIENDS |
SHANNON HALE |
FIRST SECOND BOOKS |
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Source: The NPD Group/BookScan |
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For charts of August graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:
August 2020 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels
August 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:
August 2020 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
August 2020 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
August 2020 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero 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."