Millie Marotta's Animal Kingdom
Book · 2014 · Niche
A colouring book sold 318,987 US print copies in 2015 at BookScan-reporting outlets.
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- Peak date
- Apr 2015
- Aug 14 ’14 to Apr 2015
- Platforms
- 6
- Started on Retail
- Origin
- Seeded
- Entertainment
How it spread
Trace the originBatsford released Animal Kingdom in 2014. Readers posted their coloured pages and described discovering colouring through Facebook. The book entered international bestseller charts; its publisher later claimed worldwide sales above five million.
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August 2014
Batsford Books seed · Aug 14 ’14
Batsford published the original Animal Kingdom paperback.[1]
April 2015
Google News search sample peak · Apr 2015
April led the dated press-search sample with three of its nine returned articles.[2]
May 2015
Publishers Weekly press · May 15 ’15
PW relayed Sterling’s claim of over one million worldwide sales of Animal Kingdom.[3]
Changelogupdated Oct 16 ’26
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- Added: 16 events, 20 sources · Score 17
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