Children's: Paddington takes the crown

Michael Bond’s Paddington at the Palace swiped the Children’s & YA Fiction pole, notching up its highest single-week volume since publication in 2019, despite its sales spike during the Platinum Jubilee in June.  

However, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s The Baddies claimed the overall Children’s number one once again, with 6,800 copies sold, as Tom Fletcher, Dougie Poynter and Garry Parsons’ The Dinosaur That Pooped Halloween! rose to second place. Puzzles for Spies was the highest new entry, charting fourth in the kids’ chart overall and knocking An Inspector Calls from the top of Children’s Non-fiction. 

Speaking of Children’s Non-fiction, Marcus Rashford has previously topped the category chart as an author, with You Can Do It notching up seventh place last week. But he now also features in the top 20 as a subject, after Little People, Big Dreams title Marcus Rashford joined its series fellow David Attenborough in the top 10.