As we have seen over the last couple of weeks, for sheer weight of numbers, the chart belongs to this year’s annual assortment, occupying places 4 through to 10. However, for sheer volume of sales, Jeff Kinney’s latest Diary of a Wimpy Kid outing, Cabin Fever, takes pole position. Christopher Paolini’s concluding instalment of the Inheritance series, Inheritance, slips down to 2, while everything is still going swimmingly for David Walliams’ Gangsta Granny at 3.

1 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney
2 Inheritance by Christopher Paolini
3 Gangsta Granny by David Walliams
4 Moshi Monsters: Official Annual 2012
5 Beano Annual
6 Peppa Pig: The Official Annual
7 Hello Kitty Annual: 2012
8 Disney Princess Annual: 2012
9 LEGO Annual: 2012
10 Top Gear Official Annual

A bestseller chart is always a competitive place, but perhaps the presence of Nick Hunter’s All About the Olympics serves to ramp-up that sporting spirit. In a jamboree of jokes, The Scouting Joke Book competes for laughs with Justin Fletcher and Tim Vine, who also have joke books in the chart, while we shall soon see if Andy Blackford’s The Hungry Little Monkey and Tim Collins’ Adventures of a Wimpy Werewolf are any match for How to be a Good Cat by Gail Page, not to mention Horrid Henry's Dinosaurs by Francesca Simon. Last but not least, vying for attention in the board books section are Babies and Faces, both in Usborne’s Baby's Very First Black and White Book series.

Babies
Faces
The Scouting Joke Book
The Hungry Little Monkey by Andy Blackford
Adventures of a Wimpy Werewolf by Tim Collins
Justin's Jokes by Justin Fletcher
All About the Olympics by Nick Hunter
How to be a Good Cat by Gail Page
Horrid Henry's Dinosaurs by Francesca Simon
The (Not Quite) Biggest Ever Tim Vine Joke Book by Tim Vine