Reading Survey

 I've been doing a survey of reading series the past couple weeks - I wanted to see what beginning chapter series and media tie-ins the kids were interested in and I also just wanted to give out shiny stickers. So far I've collected about 50 surveys. The data is a little skewed because the surveys themselves are not exhaustive and also the kids who want sparkly/cute stickers may skew a little towards certain books, but this is what I've got so far.

Survey on Canva

Collected data

Of the possible chapter book series I listed, the most popular is the Who Was series with 11 choices, followed by Owl Diaries with 9 and Press Start with 8.

I listed a lot of genres to choose from, but I'm doubtful about whether most of the kids really understood what all the genres were. Only one chose biography, but 11 also chose Who Was which is a series of biographies lol. The most popular genre was mystery at 22, followed by adventure and animals both at 21, fantasy at 17 and funny at 15.

Of the media tie-ins, or fan fiction favorites, Disney came out on top with 16 and Pokemon at 13 (Pokemon manga was at 6). I divided both Minecraft and Lego into fiction and how-to, so those numbers are a little skewed. Minecraft fiction was at 11 and how to at 12. Scooby-doo came in at 10, which was a surprise - I guess I'll have to look for some more Scooby-Doo books.

The series written in included several each for Harry Potter and Percy Jackson, with a wide range of other series. I had a request for D&D manga, which, other than Delicious in Dungeon I can't think of anything in existence. Ever After High and Monster High, both of which I think are out of print? LPS - no idea what that is, other than Little Pet Shop? "Monsters" which is not at alll vague, and Rainbow High which I think is a show, but there's only one book I can find from last year.

My main take-away is that kids aren't really interested in realistic fiction or school stories at a beginning chapter level which is ironic, considering that's the theme of most of the new series coming out. Animals and mystery are easy requests to fill, but adventure is really too vague. Mostly younger kids filled this out, but that age bracket isn't particularly into Star Wars or Superheroes, which I had suspected based on circulation, so I can continue to focus on other properties.