Bestseller Stat Shot
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Holt) celebrates 500 weeks on the juvenile fiction overall bestseller list this week, giving it a much longer tail than your average bear, or book—or book about bears, for that matter. It has some illustrious company in the long-running bestseller department. Here are the longest-running titles from several categories:
| Adult fiction | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 84 |
| Adult nonfiction | Strengths Finder 2.0 | Tom Rath | 342 |
| Juvenile fiction | Goodnight Moon | Margaret Wise Brown | 502 |
| Juvenile nonfiction | Where the Sidewalk Ends | Shel Silverstein | 499 |
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