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

 

 

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