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‘The 91-Storey Treehouse’ tops children’s fiction bestsellers chart

16 November 2017   Books+Publishing
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The latest instalments in several bestselling Australian junior-fiction series have made it into the Australian children’s fiction bestsellers chart for October, including Andy Griffith and Terry Denton’s The 91-Storey Treehouse, Aaron Blabey’s Alien vs Bad Guys: The Bad Guys Episode Six and Anh Do’s Spooky Weird! WeirDo Book Nine. Jessica Townsend’s debut children’s fantasy novel Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow is in third place on the chart. Nevermoor was published in Australia on 10 October and in its first week of release became the biggest debut children’s book in the Australian market since records began.

Australian children’s fiction bestsellers: October

  1. The 91-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan)
  2. Alien vs Bad Guys: The Bad Guys Episode Six (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic)
  3. Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Jessica Townsend, Hachette)
  4. Spooky Weird! WeirDo Book Nine (Anh Do, Scholastic)
  5. Funny Kid for President (Matt Stanton, ABC Books)
  6. The 13-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan)
  7. Really Weird! WeirDo Book Eight (Anh Do, Scholastic)
  8. The 78-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan)
  9. The 26-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan)
  10. The 39-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan)

© Nielsen BookScan 2017
Period covered: 1 to 28 October 2017
Data supplied by Nielsen BookScan’s book sales monitoring system from 1000 retailers nationwide

 

Category: Think Junior bestsellers