There are five books on this month’s chart that weren’t on last month’s, three August and two September releases. The Baby-Sitters Club: Kristy and the Snobs, by multiple Eisner nominee Chan Chau (see "The 2021 Eisner Award Nominees"), is in second place; Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham’s Friends Forever, the third book in the Real Friends trilogy, is in fourth. Big Nate returns to the chart for the first time in a while with Big Nate: Aloha!, Ben Clanton’s playful narwhal and jellyfish return in Narwhal’s School of Awesomeness, and the fifth title is the graphic adaptation of Lauren Tarshis’ I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001. All these are August and September releases.
So what got bumped? Terri Libenson’s Truly Tyler, which charted for two months; Jerry Craft’s New Kid, a perennial best-seller; the fourth Wings of Fire adaptation; FGTEEV Saves the World; and Kayla Miller’s Clash.
Here’s what hasn’t changed: There are 11 Dog Man books in the top 20, even though there are only 10 volumes in the series. As we explained last month, that’s because Scholastic has just reprinted the first six volumes (see "August 2021 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels"), but the old ones are still hanging around in stores (with a different MSRP and ISBN), and in September, unit sales of the older edition of Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild were high enough to put it at number 20. Those 11 plus Cat Kid Comic Club give Dav Pilkey, once again, a dozen titles in the Top 20.
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NPD BookScan Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels – September 2021 (8/29/21 - 10/2/21) |
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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 |
THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB: KRISTY AND THE SNOBS |
CHAN CHAU |
GRAPHIX |
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3 |
DOG MAN: GRIME AND PUNISHMENT HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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4 |
FRIENDS FOREVER |
SHANNON HALE |
FIRST SECOND BOOKS |
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5 |
CAT KID COMIC CLUB HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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6 |
DOG MAN: FOR WHOM THE BALL ROLLS HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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7 |
DOG MAN: FETCH-22 HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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8 |
DOG MAN HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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9 |
DOG MAN: BRAWL OF THE WILD HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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10 |
DOG MAN UNLEASHED HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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11 |
DOG MAN: LORD OF THE FLEAS HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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12 |
DOG MAN AND CAT KID HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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13 |
DOG MAN: A TALE OF TWO KITTIES HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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14 |
BABY-SITTERS LITTLE SISTER: KAREN'S KITTYCAT CLUB |
KATY FARINA |
GRAPHIX |
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15 |
THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB: CLAUDIA AND THE NEW GIRL |
GABRIELA EPSTEIN |
GRAPHIX |
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16 |
GUTS |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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17 |
BIG NATE: ALOHA! |
LINCOLN PEIRCE |
ANDREWS MCMEEL |
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18 |
NARWHAL'S SCHOOL OF AWESOMENESS |
BEN CLANTON |
TUNDRA |
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19 |
I SURVIVED THE ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 |
LAUREN TARSHIS |
GRAPHIX |
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20 |
DOG MAN: BRAWL OF THE WILD HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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Source: The NPD Group/BookScan |
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For charts of September 2021 graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:
September 2021 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels
September 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:
September 2021 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
September 2021 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
September 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."