What do the youngest read?

In Spain, the designation of best seller always applied to novels for adults, but today, Day of literature for children and young peopleIt’s time to remember that the real bestsellers are in this sectoras shown Robert Santiago or Jordi Sierra and Fabra, with more than four and 12 million books sold. These are authors who are making waves not only in the Spanish publishing market, but also abroad, and in addition to confirming themselves as a sales boom every time one of their stories reaches bookstores, they are the creators of true long sellersbest-selling books year after year.

Writers for children and young people are the true protagonists and to a large extent responsible for the greatest economic benefit of Spanish publishers. This is the case with the historical cartoonist Ibanezwho with his Mortadello and Filemon (Bruguera) was sold in a huge hundred million copies, and with Jordi Sierra and Fabrawhich was published more than 450 titleswhich means more than 12 million books sold.

There are fewer media writers who sell books like hotcakes, like mercedes ronwho started posting his first stories on wattpad —a platform on which more than 50 million readers got hooked on their books—, which made a leap into bookstores in 2017 thanks to Montena with saga guiltywhich accumulates more than 630,000 books sold. Online communities have become important carriers of success in the paper world, as shown by other authors such as Joana Marcus, with 247,700 books sold last year.

This is also the case for Crazy Haaks (Montena), a collection of children’s adventure books written by him Monica Vicente Tamames, also the creator of a YouTube channel where, under the same name as the books, she appears with her three children. Vicente sent 470,400 copies of this collection, as well as 609,000 with another series of his authorship, Lady Freckles.

High voltage figures are also found in historical authors such as the recently deceased Juan Munoz, father Friar Perico and his donkey (El Barco de Vapor collection) and which has sold 907,121 books since its publication in 1980.

Among the smallest, they take success Pepe’s chickenwhich in the last ten years has reached the figure of 220,000 copies sold. The title is very close Can I see your diaper? Guido van Genechten (SM), which reached 198,426 units in the last decade.

Another example of the good health of literature for children and young people is the case of a female writer Juan Gómez Jurado who if with his rug Red Queen It has about two hundred editions and two and a half million copies sold, with children’s saga Amanda Black (written with his partner Bárbara Montes) reaches 370,000 units distributed in Spanish homes.