1. Pax by Sara Pennypacker and Jon Klassen
2. The Hidden Oracle: The Trials of Apollo Book 1 by Rick Riordan
3. The Bad Guys: Episode 1 by Aaron Blabey
4. The Treehouse Fun Book by Andy Griffiths, Jill Griffiths and Terry Denton
5. The Cat with the Coloured Tail by Gillian Mears and Dinalie Dabarera
6. Crazy Weird: WeirDo Book 6 by Anh Do and Jules Faber
7. The Bad Guys Episode 3: The Furball Strikes Back by Aaron Blabey
8. The World’s Worst Children by David Walliams and Tony Ross
9. The Bad Guys Episode 2: Mission Unpluckable by Aaron Blabey
10. The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Our bestselling children’s books of last week include all three books of Aaron Blabey’s hilarious Bad Guys series. We LOVE this series and can’t recommend highly enough. The first book is shortlisted for our Readings Children’s Book Prize, and here are five reasons why we think it’s brilliant.

One other book from our Prize shortlist also proved popular last week: The Cat with the Coloured Tail is a magical fable from Australian author Gillian Mears, with gorgeous illustrations by Dinalie Dabarera. We were deeply saddened to learn about Mears’ death. As our Managing Director Mark Rubbo said, ‘Gillian was a wonderful writer and enriched all our lives – we will miss her.’

And, for YA fans, our bestsellers list also includes a powerful novel set during WWII from Newbery Honor award-winning author Kimberly Brubaker Bradley: The War That Saved My Life.