Children's Books Best Sellers (Book Sense)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid:The Third Wheel

by Jeff Kinney (Amulet, ISBN: 9781419705847); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 3

The Elf on the Shelf

by Carol Abersoldt, Coe Steinwart (Illus.) (CCA and B, ISBN: 9780976990703); Last week: 10; Weeks on List: 5

The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus, Book Three)

by Rick Riordan (Hyperion, ISBN: 9781423140603); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: 8

Safari: A Photicular Book

by Dan Kainen, Carol Kaufmann (Workman, ISBN: 9780761163800); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: 5

Goodnight Moon

by Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper, ISBN: 9780694003617); Last week: 8; Weeks on List: *

Who Could That Be at This Hour?

by Lemony Snicket (Little Brown, ISBN: 9780316123082); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: 5

This Moose Belongs to Me

by Oliver Jeffers (Philomel, ISBN: 9780399161032); Last week: 9; Weeks on List: 3

The Polar Express

by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton Mifflin, ISBN: 9780395389492); Weeks on List: 42

Pete the Cat Saves Christmas

by Eric Litwin, James Dean (Illus.) (Harper, ISBN: 9780062110626); Last week: 11; Weeks on List: 2

Reached (Matched Trilogy, Book 3)

by Ally Condie (Dutton, ISBN: 9780525423669); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: 3

This Is Not My Hat

by Jon Klassen (Candlewick, ISBN: 9780763655990); Last week: 7; Weeks on List: 7

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

by Dr. Seuss (Random House, ISBN: 9780394800790); Weeks on List: 13

Lego Ninjago: Character Encyclopedia

by Claire Sipi (DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley), ISBN: 9780756698126); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: 5

Divergent

by Veronica Roth (Katherine Tegen Books, ISBN: 9780062024039); Last week: 12; Weeks on List: 36

I Want My Hat Back

by Jon Klassen (Candlewick, ISBN: 9780763655983); Last week: 14; Weeks on List: 23

LDL Staff Picks

Elvis and the Dearly Departed

by Peggy Webb

If you are or ever were an Elvis fan you will appreciate these books by Peggy Webb. Elvis is a hound dog (of course) who thinks he is the real Elvis. ~LDL Staff

Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fast-Food-Fueled Car, and a Cross-Country Trip in Search of a Greener Future

by Greg Melville

Two friends set across the United States in their previously diesel-fueled car that was converted to run on cooking oil in order to examine alternatives for cleaner energy. The friends learn that Al Gore lives in an energy-hogging mansio...

Winter Garden

by Kristin Hannah

This book is beautifully written and I learned a great deal about what happened in Russia during the reign of Stalin. My favorite book, of late. ~LDL Staff