The most-loved Juvenile books for Valentine's Day 2024

To find out which Juvenile books found true love with buyers and borrowers this Valentine’s Day, we turned to BNC SalesData, BookNet’s national sales tracking service for the Canadian English-language trade book market, and BNC LibraryData, BookNet’s national library collection and circulation analysis tool.

We took the BISAC codes Juvenile Fiction / Holidays & Celebrations / Valentine’s Day and Juvenile Non-Fiction / Holidays & Celebrations / Valentine’s Day and added a dash of the Thema code, 5HCE Valentine’s Day / Lovers’ days, to find the books that publishers wanted to promote for the holiday. Then we ran our Bestseller report in SalesData and the Popular Books report in LibraryData to find out which ones resonated with buyers and borrowers respectively.

(*We also checked the BISAC Merchandising Themes code, HL180 HOLIDAY / Valentine's Day, but didn’t find any books tagged with that code in our top 10 for either list.)

Top 10 bestselling books

1. Little Blue Truck's Valentine by Alice Schertle, illustrated by Jill McElmurry

2. Love from Bluey by Suzy Brumm

3. Peppa's Valentine's Day by Courtney Carbone

4. Happy Valentine's Day, Curious George! by H. A. Rey

5. I'll Love You till the Cows Come Home by Kathryn Cristaldi, illustrated by Kristyna Litten

6. Chunky Pack: Valentine by Roger Priddy

7. Little Critter: Happy Valentine's Day, Little Critter! by Mercer Mayer

8. Vintage Valentines from Golden Books

9. Dr. Seuss's Lovey Things by Dr. Seuss, illustrated by Tom Brannon

10. Love by Jaye Garnett, illustrated by Kathrin Fehrl

Find all of these titles in this CataList catalogue: Valentine's Day Bestselling Juvenile Books - 2024

Top 10 most circulated titles

1. Peppa Pig and the I Love You Game by Candlewick Press

2. Amelia Bedelia's First Valentine by Herman Parish, illustrated by Lynne Avril

3. Little Blue Truck's Valentine by Alice Schertle, illustrated by Jill McElmurry

4. Your Nose! by Sandra Boynton

5. Llama Llama Be My Valentine! created by Anna Dewdney

6. I'll Love You till the Cows Come Home by Kathryn Cristaldi, illustrated by Kristyna Litten

7. Peppa's Valentine's Day by Courtney Carbone

8. Happy Valentine's Day, Mouse! by Laura Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond

9. Franklin's Valentines by Paulette Bourgeois, 🍁 illustrated by Brenda Clark 🍁

10. Pete the Cat: Valentine's Day Is Cool by James Dean and Kimberly Dean

Find all of these titles in this CataList catalogue: Valentine's Day Top Circulated Juvenile Books - 2024

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