August 3, 2008
New York Times Children's Books Best-seller List
| PICTURE BOOKS | |||
| This Week |
Weeks On List |
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| 1 | GALLOP!,
written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder (Workman, $12.95.) Animals seem to move when you flip the page. (Ages 4 to 8) |
36 | |
| 2 | ALPHABET,
by Matthew Van Fleet (Wiseman/Simon & Schuster, $19.99.) An interactive safari ABC. (Ages 2 to 6) |
15 | |
| 3 | YOU CAN DO
IT!, by Tony Dungy. Illustrated by Amy June Bates (Little Simon Inspirations, $16.99.) How faith and dreams help us succeed |
2 | |
| 4 | A
VISITOR FOR BEAR, by Bonny Becker. Illustrated by Kady
MacDonald Denton (Candlewick, $16.99.) A mouse pops in on an antisocial bear. (Ages 4 to 8) |
6 | |
| 5 | KNUFFLE BUNNY
TOO, written and illustrated by Mo Willems (Hyperion, $16.99.) One of Trixie’s classmates has a bunny just like hers. (Ages 4 to 8) |
34 | |
| 6 | SMASH!
CRASH!, by Jon Scieszka. Illustrated by David Shannon,
Loren Long and David Gordon (Simon & Schuster, $16.99.) A truck named Jack and a dump truck named Dan love to smash into things. (Ages 3 to 7) |
26 | |
| 7 | READ
ALL ABOUT IT!, by Laura Bush and Jenna Bush. Illustrated
by Denise Brunkus (HarperCollins, $17.99.) A boy is surprised to discover that he loves storybooks. (Ages 4 to 8) |
13 | |
| 8 | LADYBUG
GIRL, by Jacky Davis and David Soman. Illustrated by
David Soman (Dial, $16.99.) Creativity and the right outfit let a little girl feel bigger. (Ages 4 and up) |
17 | |
| 9 | DON’T
BUMP THE GLUMP!, written and illustrated by Shel
Silverstein (HarperCollins, $17.99.) His first collection of nonsense verse, originally published in 1964. (Ages 5 and up) |
15 | |
| 10 | ZEN
TIES, written and illustrated by Jon J. Muth (Scholastic, $17.99.) Stillwater the Buddhist panda encourages friends to help a neighbor. (Ages 4 to 8) |
27 | |
| CHAPTER BOOKS | |||
| This Week |
Weeks On List |
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| 1 | DIARY
OF A WIMPY KID, written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney (Amulet/Abrams, $12.95.) The travails of adolescence, in cartoons. (Ages 9 to 12) |
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| 2 | DIARY
OF A WIMPY KID: RODRICK RULES, by Jeff Kinney (Amulet/Abrams, $12.95.) How Greg embarrassed himself on his vacation; a sequel to “Diary of a Wimpy Kid.” (Ages 9 to 12) |
27 | |
| 3 | WARRIORS: CATS
OF THE CLANS, by Erin Hunter. Illustrated by Wayne
McLoughlin (HarperCollins, $15.99.) A guide to the Warriors series. (Ages 10 and up) |
4 | |
| 4 | LOCK
AND KEY, by Sarah Dessen (Viking, $18.99.) A free-spirited high school girl is sent to live with her wealthy older sister. (Ages 12 and up) |
13 | |
| 5 | THE
INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET, written and illustrated by
Brian Selznick (Scholastic, $22.99.) An orphan deciphers his father’s last message. (Ages 9 to 12) |
68 | |
| 6 | THE
MAGICIAN, by Michael Scott (Delacorte, $16.99.) Twins must stop an evil sorcerer; a sequel to “The Alchemyst.” (Ages 12 and up) |
4 | |
| 7 | THE
ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN, by Sherman
Alexie. Illustrated by Ellen Forney (Little, Brown, $16.99.) A boy leaves his reservation for an all-white school. (Ages 12 and up) |
35 | |
| 8 | THE
PENDERWICKS ON GARDAM STREET, by Jeanne Birdsall (Knopf, $15.99.) Four sisters intervene in their father’s dating life; a sequel to “The Penderwicks.” (Ages 12 and up) |
10 | |
| 9 | THE
WILLOUGHBYS, by Lois Lowry (Walter Lorraine/Houghton Mifflin, $16.) Two wicked parents and their precocious children parody the conventions of children’s literature. (Ages 9 to 12) |
2 | |
| 10 | THE
SUMMONING, by Kelley Armstrong (HarperCollins, $17.99.) When she starts seeing ghosts, a girl is confined to a suspicious group home. (Ages 12 and up) |
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| PAPERBACK BOOKS | |||
| This Week |
Weeks On List |
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| 1 | KRISTEN,
by Lisi Harrison (Poppy/Little, Brown, $6.99.) In summer school, a scholarship student baby-sits for a popular boy’s younger sister; a Clique novel. (Ages 12 and up) |
3 | |
| 2 | THE
TALE OF DESPEREAUX, by Kate DiCamillo. Illustrated by
Timothy Basil Ering (Candlewick, $7.99.) A mouse, a rat and a girl on a magic trip. (Ages 10 and up) |
25 | |
| 3 | THE
BOOK THIEF, by Markus Zusak (Knopf, $11.99.) A girl saves books from Nazi burning and shares them with a Jewish man in hiding. (Ages 14 and up) |
45 | |
| 4 | ALICIA,
by Lisi Harrison (Poppy/Little, Brown, $6.99.) In Spain for the summer, a girl auditions for a role in a rock video; a Clique novel. (Ages 12 and up) |
7 | |
| 5 | CHOSEN,
by P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast (St. Martin’s, $8.95.) A young vampire learns who her real school friends are. (Ages 12 and up) |
12 | |
| 6 | MASSIE,
by Lisi Harrison (Poppy/Little, Brown, $6.99.) A Westchester girl takes a summer job selling cosmetics; a Clique novel. (Ages 12 and up) |
16 | |
| 7 | CAMP
ROCK, by Lucy Ruggles (Disney, $4.99.) How to be a pop star; a tie-in to the TV movie. (Ages 9 to 12) |
8 | |
| 8 | DYLAN,
by Lisi Harrison (Poppy/Little, Brown, $6.99.) The daughter of a TV journalist falls in love at a Hawaiian tennis tournament; a Clique novel. (Ages 12 and up) |
11 | |
| 9 | TEMPTED,
by Cecily von Ziegesar (Poppy/Little, Brown, $9.99.) Who at Waverly stopped Jenny from being expelled? An It Girl novel. (Ages 15 and up) |
7 | |
| 10 | NIGHT
WORLD NO. 1, by L. J. Smith (Simon Pulse, $8.99.) Three previously published fantasy novels, packaged together: “Secret Vampire,” “Daughters of Darkness” and “Spellbinder.” (Ages 14 and up) |
2 | |
Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending July 19, at almost 4,000 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 50,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent all such outlets nationwide. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (+) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.
List and descriptions from the New York Times web site at
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/index.html