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Public Lending Right Figures .... July 2005 - June 2006

Children's writer Jacqueline Wilson has retained her crown as the most borrowed author in UK libraries for the forth year running, Public Lending Right (PLR) announced today.

Figures released today show that Jacqueline, the current Children's Laureate, was only one of 4 authors to notch up over 1 million loans in 2005-2006

With collection of this latest year of data PLR figures now have a decades worth of lending figures with which to provide a '10-year picture' of the nation's reading trends and borrowing data.

The statistics which cover the ten years from 1996-2006 reveal an unlikely duo who have emerged as continual favourites with UK library borrowers. Children's author partnership Janet & Allan Ahlberg and Danielle Steel are the only writers to feature in the Top 10 Most Borrowed Authors list every single year for the past decade.

With total loans over the past 10 years of over 13 million, Jacqueline Wilson just pips the Ahlbergs who over the past 10 years have clocked up loans of over 12 million. They both have a way to go yet to beat the 'Queen of library lending' for the last decade Catherine Cookson has gained a total of 25 million loans over the last 10 years.


Most Borrowed Authors (ADULT & CHILDREN COMBINED) 2005/2006

NAME	ADULT/CHILDREN	POSITION IN 04/05
Jacqueline Wilson	C	1
James Patterson	A	4
Josephine Cox	A	2
Danielle Steel	A	3
Ian Rankin	A	8
Janet & Allan Ahlberg	C	6
Mick Inkpen	C	5
Roald Dahl	C	9
John Grisham	A	7
Nora Roberts	A	15

Most Borrowed Authors (1996/97 - 2005/06)

NAME	ADULT/CHILDREN	Loans (over)
Catherine Cookson	A	25 million
Danielle Steel	A	18 million
R L Stine	C	18 million
Josephine Cox	A	15 million
Jacqueline Wilson	C	13 million
Janet & Allan Ahlberg	C	12 million
Dick Francis	A	12 million
Roald Dahl	C	10 million
Agatha Christie	A	10 million
Jack Higgins	A	10 million

Most Borrowed Children's Authors 2005/2006

1. Jacqueline Wilson	11. Ian Whybrow
2. Janet & Allan Ahlberg	12. Rose Impey
3. Mick Inkpen	13. Julia Donaldson
4. Roald Dahl	14. J K Rowling
5. Lucy Daniels	15. Martin Waddell
6. Lucy Cousins	16. Terry Deary
7. Eric Hill	17. Lemony Snicket
8. Enid Blyton	18. Dick King-Smith
9. Francesca Simon	19. David McKee
10. Nick Butterworth	20. Debi Gliori

Most Borrowed Children's Fiction Titles

1. J K Rowling	Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
2. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt)	Clean Break
3. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt)	Sleepovers
4. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt)	The Story of Tracy Beaker
5. J K Rowling	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
6. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt)	The Diamond Girls
7. Jennifer Donnelly	Mum-minder
8. Francesca Simon (illus Tony Ross)	Horrid Henry's Underpants
9. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt)	Best Friends
10. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt)	The Drae Game
11. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt)	Midnight
12. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt)	Best Friends
13. Francesca Simon (illus Tony Ross)	Horrid Henry meets the Queen
14. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt)	Lizzie Zipmouth
15. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt)	Vicky Angel
16. Julia Donaldson (illus Axel Scheffler)	The Gruffalo's Child
17. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt)	The Lottie Project
18. Julia Donaldson (illus Axel Scheffler)	Gruffalo
19. Jacqueline Wilson (illus Nick Sharratt)	The Worry Website
20. J K Rowling	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Most Borrowed Classic Titles (Children)

1. Roald Dahl (Illus Quentin Blake)	The Witches
2. Roald Dahl (Illus Quentin Blake)	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
3. Roald Dahl (Illus Quentin Blake)	Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
4. Roald Dahl (Illus Quentin Blake)	Matilda
5. Roald Dahl (Illus Quentin Blake)	The BFG
6. Roald Dahl (Illus Quentin Blake)	James and the Giant Peach
7. Roald Dahl (Illus Quentin Blake)	Danny the Champion of the World
8. Korky Paul and Valerie Thomas	Winnie's Magic Wand
9. J R R Tolkien (illus David Wyatt)	The Hobbit
10. Roald Dahl	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
11. C S Lewis (illus Pauline Baynes)	The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
12. Roald Dahl (Illus Quentin Blake)	The Enormous Crocodile
13. Roald Dahl (Illus Quentin Blake)	The Complete Adventures of Charlie and Mr Willy Wonka
14. C S Lewis (illus Pauline Baynes)	The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
15. Louisa M Alcott (illus Shirley hughes)	Little Women
16. Roald Dahl (Illus Quentin Blake)	George's Marvellous Medicine
17. Roald Dahl (Illus Quentin Blake)	The Twits
18. Ian Beck	Chicken Licken
19. Astrid Lindgren (illus Tony Ross)	Pippi Longstocking
20. Walt Disney Company	Peter Pan

Most Borrowed Children's Non-Fiction Titles

1. Eric Hill	Spot can Count
2. Anna Nilsen	Pirates
3. Terry Deary (illus Martin Brown)	The Woeful Second World War
4. Terry Deary, Neil Tonge (illus Martin Brown)	The Terrible Tudors
5. Terry Deary (illus Martin Brown)	The Ruthless Romans
6. Terry Deary, Peter Hepplewhite (illus Martin Brown)	The Awesome Egyptians
7. Terry Deary (illus Martin Brown)	The Rotten Romans
8. Terry Deary (illus Martin Brown)	The Vile Victorians
9. Mick Inkpen	Kipper's A-Z
10. Simon Adams	Tudor
11. Terry Deary (illus Martin Brown)	England
12. Simon Adams	World War II
13. Lucy Cousins	Count with Maisy
14. Lucy Cousins	Maisy's Colours
15. -	Baby Animals
16. Terry Deary (illus Martin Brown)	The Groovy Greeks
17. Mick Inkpen	Kipper's Book of Counting
18. Mick Inkpen	Kipper's Book of Colours
19. Terry Deary (illus Kate Sheppard)	The Blitzed Brits
20. Mick Inkpen	Kipper's Book of Opposites

Authors with over 1 million loans . . .
Public Libraries are as popular as ever with children & young people
1. Jacqueline Wilson	4. Josephine Cox
2. James Patterson	5. Danielle Steel

UK Top Borrowed 'classic' writers
1. Roald Dahl	4. C S Lewis
2. Agatha Christie	5. Beatrix Potter
3. Georgette Heyer	6. Charles Dickens

for more information visit the PLR website
Information provided by Public Lending Right, 2007.

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