The Boy in the Dress, he has sold more than 40m books and racked up more than 180 weeks at No 1 in the children’s charts; a feat even JK Rowling has never achieved.
He alone accounted for 14. 4% of HarperCollins’ £133m revenue last year, and singlehandedly sold a third of the top 50 children’s books of the year: 2.
4m copies from 11 books, compared to 4. 7m between the rest. “Richard Osman may have a very successful career as a crime author, but he’s never going to sell a third of all adult fiction sales,” says children’s author Gareth P Jones. “But with kids, the people buying the books are not the people reading the books.
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