Anh Do’s new ‘Ninja Kid’ tops children’s fiction bestsellers

Comedian, and author of the bestselling memoir The Happiest Refugee, Anh Do occupies four of the top 10 places on the children’s fiction bestsellers chart for March, with the first in his new ‘Ninja Kid’ series sitting in top spot and titles from his ‘WeirDo’ series in third, ninth and tenth places. Also making kids laugh this month were comedian Peter Helliar, whose ‘Frankie Fish’ books sit in second and eighth place, and two of the ‘Treehouse’ books by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton in fourth and sixth spot. Kensy and Max: Breaking News is the first book in a new action adventure middle-grade spy series by the author of the ‘Alice-Miranda’ and ‘Clementine Rose’ series, Jacqueline Harvey, and it has debuted in the March top 10 in fifth spot. Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor, in seventh place, recently won Book of the Year in the Indie Awards and also took out the younger readers category of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize (see above). 

Australian children’s fiction bestsellers: March

• Ninja Kid #1 (Anh Do, Omnibus Books)
• Frankie Fish and the Great Wall of Chaos (Peter Helliar, Hardie Grant Egmont)
• WeirDo #10: Messy Weird! (Anh Do, Scholastic)
• The 13-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan)
• Kensy and Max 1: Breaking News (Jacqueline Harvey, Random House)
• The 91-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan)
• Nevermoor (Jessica Townsend, Lothian)
• Frankie Fish and The Sonic Suitcase (Peter Helliar, Hardie Grant Egmont)
• WeirDo #9: Spooky Weird! (Anh Do, Scholastic)
• WeirDo (Anh Do, Scholastic)

© Nielsen BookScan 2018
Period covered: 25 February to 31 March 2018
Data supplied by Nielsen BookScan’s book sales monitoring system from 1000 retailers nationwide

Category: Think Junior bestsellers