Best-selling children’s books March 1998

Source: Publishers Weekly, New York, New York, 212-463-6758

List prices appear in U.S. dollars

Picture Books

Guess How Much I Love You

(board book)

Sam McBratney, illustrated by Anita Jeram – Candlewick, $6.99

I Love You So Much

Carl Norac, illustrated by Claude K. Dubois – Doubleday, $9.95

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (board book)

Bill Martin Jr., illustrated by Eric Carle – Holt, $6.95

Anastasia

Maggie Blackwell – HarperActive, $7.98

Snoozers

Sandra Boynton – Little Simon, $7.99

Guess How Much I Love You

Sam McBratney, illustrated by Anita Jeram – Candlewick, $15.99

Rapunzel

Paul O. Zelinsky – Dutton, $16.99

The Gardener

Sarah Stewart, illustrated by David Small – FSG, $15

I Love You, Little One

Nancy Tafuri – Scholastic, $15.95

Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse

Kevin Henkes – Greenwillow, $15

Fiction

The View from Saturday

E.L. Konigsburg – Aladdin, paper $4.50

Brian’s Winter

Gary Paulsen – Dell/Laurel-Leaf, paper $4.99

The Giver

Lois Lowry – Dell/Laurel-Leaf, paper $5.50

Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse –

Scholastic Press, $15.95

SOS Titanic

Eve Bunting – Harcourt, paper $6

Paperback Series

Animorphs

K.A. Applegate –

Scholastic

Arthur

Marc Brown –

Little, Brown

Little Bill

Bill Cosby – Scholastic

Magic Tree House

Mary Pope Osborne, illustrated by Sal Murdocca – Random House

Goosebumps Series 2000

R.L. Stine – Scholastic

Nonfiction

Leonardo: A Scrapbook in Words and Pictures

Grace Catalano – Dell, paper $7.95

Leonardo DiCaprio: Modern-Day Romeo

Grace Catalano –

Dell/Laurel-Leaf, paper $4.99

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul

Jack Canfield –

Health Communications, $12.95

Zac Hanson: Totally Zac!

Matt Netter – Pocket/Archway, paper $3.99

Inside the Titanic: A Giant Cut-Away Book

Hugh Brewster, illustrated by Ken Marschall – Little, Brown, $18.95