Pilkey’s canine creation takes ten slots, of course, with the newest title, Dog Man: Mothering Heights, in the lead. Cat Kid Comic Club, another Pilkey graphic novel, is in second place, and the remaining nine Dog Man books fill out the Pilkey contingent. As has been the case for over a year now, other titles break up the Dog Man bloc: The Dark Secret, the fourth volume of adaptations of Tui T. Sutherland’s Wings of Fire series; Karen’s Worst Day, the latest Baby-Sitters Little Sister book; and Raina Telgemeier’s Guts.
All that Dog Man is pushing some other titles off the chart. A year ago (see "March 2020 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels"), there were four Raina Telgemeier titles in the top 20; now there are only two. No Big Nate book has made the top 20 since April 2020, and Best Friends, despite being one of the top titles of 2020 (see "Full Year 2020 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels"), hasn’t been in the top 20 since the beginning of 2021.
Some March 2020 titles are still in the top 20: Jerry Craft’s New Kid and Max Brallier’s The Last Kids on Earth, which typically chart every month, as well as the most recent volume of John Patrick Green’s InvestiGators series. Another title from the March 2020 chart is back, but in a different format: FGTeeV Presents: Into the Game, which stayed on the chart for the first nine months of 2020, is back in a new paperback edition.
As other series wax and wane, though, none of them seems to be popular enough to edge a Dog Man volume off the chart. Not yet, anyway.
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NPD BookScan Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels – March 2021 (2/28/21 - 4/3/21) |
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Rank |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
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1 |
DOG MAN: MOTHERING HEIGHTS HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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2 |
CAT KID COMIC CLUB HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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3 |
DOG MAN: GRIME AND PUNISHMENT HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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4 |
DOG MAN: FOR WHOM THE BALL ROLLS HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
|
5 |
DOG MAN: FETCH-22 HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
|
6 |
WINGS OF FIRE BOOK 4: THE DARK SECRET |
TUI T. SUTHERLAND |
GRAPHIX |
|
7 |
DOG MAN: BRAWL OF THE WILD HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
|
8 |
DOG MAN HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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9 |
DOG MAN: LORD OF THE FLEAS HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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10 |
DOG MAN AND CAT KID HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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11 |
BABY-SITTERS LITTLE SISTER VOL. 3: KAREN'S WORST DAY |
KATY FARINA |
GRAPHIX |
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12 |
DOG MAN: A TALE OF TWO KITTIES HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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13 |
GUTS |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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14 |
DOG MAN UNLEASHED HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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15 |
NEW KID |
JERRY CRAFT |
HARPERCOLLINS |
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16 |
WINGS OF FIRE BOOK 1: THE DRAGONET PROPHECY |
TUI T. SUTHERLAND |
GRAPHIX |
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17 |
INVESTIGATORS: OFF THE HOOK HC |
JOHN PATRICK GREEN |
FIRST SECOND BOOKS |
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18 |
THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH |
MAX BRALLIER |
VIKING BOOKS YR |
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19 |
FGTEEV PRESENTS: INTO THE GAME! |
FGTEEV |
HARPERCOLLINS |
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20 |
DRAMA |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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Source: The NPD Group/BookScan |
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For charts of March 2021 graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:
March 2021 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels
March 2021 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 2021 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
March 2021 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
March 2021 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."