ALA Awards Titles Continue Sales Increases
Following up on our previous story about the sales impact of the major ALA Youth Media Awards, we tracked Amazon sales rankings from the day of the award through today, using Publishers Marketplace‘s Book Tracker tool.
For each title, we’ve shown the lowest and highest rankings the day of the award announcements, followed by the highest rankings for each day since (Amazon updates its rankings daily); several titles have reached new highs.
This is our first tracking of the honor books; every one of those titles has also risen in the rankings.
Newbery Awards
NEWBERY MEDAL
Dead End in Norvelt, Jack Gantos (Macmillan/FSG, 9/13/11)
1/23/12
Lowest — #27,842
Highest — #18
1/24/12 — #11
1/25/12 — #10
1/26/12 — #13
NEWBERY HONOR BOOKS
Inside Out and Back Again, Thanhha Lai, (HarperCollins, 2/22/11) — also won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
1/23/12
Lowest — #3,859
Highest — #108
1/24/12 — #55
1/25/12 — #92
1/26/12 — #131
Breaking Stalin’s Nose, Eugene Yelchin (Macmillan/Holt, 9/27/11)
1/23/12
Lowest — #294,522
Highest — #67
1/24/12 — #76
1/25/12 — #107
1/26/12 — #183
Caldecott Awards
CALDECOTT MEDAL
A Ball for Daisy, Chris Raschka (RH/ Schwartz & Wade, 5/10/11) — also a NYT Best Illus. Book
1/23/12
Lowest — #22,059
Highest — #16
1/24/12 — #9
1/25/12 — #9
1/26/12 — #17
Tracking for the Caldecott Honor Books, the Printz and Coretta Scott King Awards after the jump:
CALDECOTT HONOR BOOKS
Blackout, John Rocco, (Disney/Hyperion, 5/24/11) — also a NYT Book Review Notable Children’s Book
1/23/12
Lowest — #45,386
Highest — #77
1/24/12 — #62
1/25/12 — #72
1/26/12 — #128
Grandpa Green, Lane Smith, (Macmillan/Roaring Brook, 8/30/11) — also a NYT Best Illus. Book)
1/23/12
Lowest — #7,056
Highest — #95
1/24/12 — #59
1/25/12 — #82
1/26/12 — #153
Me… Jane, Patrick McDonnell, (Hachette/LBYR, 4/5/11) — also a NYT Best Illus. Book)
Highest Rank Before Award: #618 on 11/14/11
1/23/12
Lowest — #4,649
Highest — #78
1/24/12 — #46
1/25/12 — #57
1/26/12 — #115
Michael L. Printz Awards
PRINTZ MEDAL
Where Things Come Back, John Corey Whaley, (S&S/ Atneneum, 5/03/11)
1/23/12
Lowest — #97,910
Highest — #76
1/24/12 — #117
1/25/12 — #155
1/26/12 — #277
PRINTZ HONOR BOOKS
Why We Broke Up, Daniel Handler, Maira Kalman (Illus), (Hachette, LBYR, 11/27/11)
1/23/12
Lowest — #3,206
Highest — #439
1/24/12 — #325
1/25/12 — #419
1/26/12 — #721
The Returning, Christine Hinwood (Penguin/Dial, 4/14/11)
1/23/12
Lowest — #353,236
Highest — #1,253
1/24/12 — #892
1/25/12 — #1,682
1/26/12 — #4,289
Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey, (RH/Knopf, 4/05/11)
1/23/12
Lowest — #142,063
Highest — #1,143
1/24/12 — #777
1/25/12 — #1,430
1/26/12 — #3,324
The Scorpio Races, Maggie Stiefvater, (Scholastic, 10/18/11) — also a NYT Book Review Notable Children’s Book
Highest Rank Before Award: #380 on 12/13/11
1/23/12
Lowest — #3,843
Highest — #1,599
1/24/12 — #892
1/25/12 — #1422
1/26/12 — #1,975
Coretta Scott King Awards
CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR MEDAL
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans, Kadir Nelson, (HarperCollins/Balzar + Bray, 7/27/11) — also a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book and a NYT Book Review Notable Children’s Book
1/23/12
Lowest — #10,410
Highest — #467
1/24/12 — #170
1/25/12 — #155
1/26/12 — #402
CORETTA SCOTT KING ILLUSTRATOR MEDAL
Underground, Shane W. Evans, (Roaring Brook Press, 1/18/11)
1/23/12
Lowest — #280,396
Highest — #850
1/24/12 — #762
1/25/12 — #949
1/26/12 — #1,907
CORETTA SCOTT KING ILLUSTRATOR HONOR BOOKS
The Great Migration: Journey to the North, Eloise Greenfield, Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Illus), (HarperCollins/Amistad, 12/21/10)
1/23/12
Lowest — #148,169
Highest — #1,253
1/24/12 — #892
1/25/12 — #1,682
1/26/12 — #4,289
Never Forgotten, Patricia C. McKissack, Leo Dillon (Illus), Diane Dillon (Illus) , (RH/Schwartz & Wade, 10/11/11)
1/23/12
Lowest — #112,663
Highest — #4,047
1/24/12 — #1,897
1/25/12 — #3,219
1/26/12 — #5,887