Best-selling children’s books May 1998

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

List prices appear in U.S. dollars

Picture Books

Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!

Dr. Seuss, Jack Prelutsky and Lane Smith – Knopf, $17

If You Give a Pig a Pancake

Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia

Bond – HarperCollins, $14.95

Spot’s First Easter

Eric Hill – Puffin, $5.99

Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems

Judy Sierra, illustrated by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey – Harcourt Brace, $16

Guess How Much I Love You

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

Clifford’s Happy Easter

Norman Bridwell – Cartwheel, $2.99

Insectlopedia: Poems and Paintings

Douglas Florian – Harcourt Brace, $16

Miss Fannie’s Hat

Jan Koran, illustrated by Toni Goffe – Augsburg Fortress, $16.99

Rapunzel

Paul O. Zelinsky – Dutton, $16.99

Oh Bother! It’s the Easter Bunny!

Disney/Mouse Works, $4.98

Fiction

The Long Patrol

Brian Jacques – Philomel, $21.99

The Giver

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

The Subtle Knife

Philip Pullman – Del Rey, paper $5.99

Titanic Crossing

Barbara Williams – Scholastic, paper $3.50

The View from Saturday

E.L. Konigsburg – Aladdin, paper $4.50

Paperback Series

Animorphs

K.A. Applegate – Scholastic

Rugrats

Simon Spotlight

Arthur

Marc Brown – Little, Brown

Magic Tree House

Mary Pope Osborne, illustrated by Sal Murdocca – Random House

Goosebumps

R.L. Stine – Scholastic

Nonfiction

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul

Jack Canfield – Health Communications, $12.95

Leonardo DiCaprio: A Biography

Nancy Krulik – Pocket/Archway, paper $4.50

Finding the Titanic

Robert D. Ballard – Catwheel, paper $3.99

Exploring the Titanic

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

Lovin’ Leo: Your Leonado DiCaprio Keepsake Scrapbook

Scholastic, paper $5.99