PW: In the Kids' Corner

Scholastic's Animorphs series has supplanted Goosebumps in terms of their pattern of sales; every monthly new release title soars to the top of most chain bestseller lists. Another phenomenon: Chicken Soup for Teenage Souls, currently #7 on USA Today's list and #2 on PW's trade paper bestseller list, with 2.5 million copies in print; Health Communications has been shipping about 280,000 copies per month.

Bill Cosby's three Little Bill books are beginning to climb the lists as well, after Oprah chose them for her reading club (Scholastic just went back to press for a million copies combined), though it remains to be seen if Oprah can do for the small set what she can for the grownup books.