CHILDREN’S BOOKS LEAD AUSTRALIA’S TOP SELLERS IN HEALTHY CHRISTMAS MARKET
January 2nd, 2015
CHILDREN'S books topped Australia’s best-seller list during Christmas and New Year, according to Nielsen BookScan Australia. Australian author Andy Griffiths topped the list with ‘The 52-Storey Treehouse', which sold 232,900 copies up to December 27, firmly reaffirming the author as the country's most popular writer for young minds. Meanwhile, American Jeff Kinney and his worldwide super-seller 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid 9: The Long Haul' sold 221,800 copies, while John Green's teen romance 'The Fault in Our Stars' from 2012 was boosted to third place by a ...
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