Best-selling children's fiction title (current)
- Who
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- What
- 1,118,946 unit(s) sold
- Where
- Not Applicable
- When
- 31 December 2016
According to Nielsen BookScan's global data, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, written by Ransom Riggs (USA), sold an estimated 1,118,946 copies in 2016. Originally published in 2011, the book saw a resurgence owing to the release of a movie adaptation in September 2016.
Two books based on J K Rowling's Wizarding World sold more copies in 2016 – however, neither classify as "children's fiction" titles. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (6,623,945 copies) is a play script, while Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay (1,137,072 copies) is the screenplay from the movie.
The next best-selling children's fiction book of 2016 was Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down by Jeff Kinney (USA), which sold 1,081,946 copies across the year.