![]() ![]() This year, Jacqueline Wilson returned to her best-loved heroine in My Mum Tracy Beaker (Doubleday) and magical “middle-grade” fiction became the hot ticket, in adventures like Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor (Orion) and Abi Elphinstone’s Sky Song (Simon & Schuster). ![]() But beyond this, a rich and varied landscape of books for children and young adults is very much in evidence. Famous faces certainly continue to sell in big numbers: David Walliams’s The Ice Monster (HarperCollins), David Baddiel’s Head Kid (HarperCollins) and Greg James and Chris Smith’s Kid Normal series (Bloomsbury) are among the year’s most notable. Judging by bestseller charts and supermarket displays you’d be forgiven for thinking that most of those were by celebrities. One in every three physical books sold is now a children’s book. The sector was worth £381.9m in 2017, according to Nielsen BookScan, and 2018 may well top that. C hildren’s books have had a record-breaking few years. ![]()
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