Children's: Jubilee-lit flags up as Walliams reigns again

The Union Jack bunting was out in the Pre-School chart, with Peppa’s Royal Party (Ladybird), Where’s Mrs Queen? (Nosy Crow), Mr Men Little Miss The Royal Party (Farshore) and The Queen’s Jubilee Sticker Activity Book (Campbell) crowding the top 20. However, Father’s Day reigned supreme, despite another fortnight to go. Bluey: Daddy Putdown—referring to a bedtime story, rather than some kind of fatherly neg—took the Pre-School top spot.

David Walliams and Adam Stower’s The World’s Worst Pets (HarperCollins) spent another week atop the Children’s overall chart, with Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper oeuvre almost filling the whole top 10—as has been standard in the kids’ charts since Netflix’s "Heartstopper" adaptation dropped in April.

Nibbies Book of the Year winner Marcus Rashford held 10th place with The Breakfast Club Adventures (Macmillan), co-written with Alex Falase-Koya. Older kids were a little less royalist, with only Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman’s There is Once a Queen (HarperCollins) charting in the Children’s and YA Fiction top 20.

Ant and Dec’s kids’ mental health guide Propa Happy (Red Shed), illustrated by Katie Abey, swiped the Children’s Non-Fiction number one, outselling even half-term favourite, Natural History Museum guide Kids Only.