Johanna Basford’s popular adult coloring book, Secret Garden, has sold more than three million copies in China alone in less than three months, the publisher Laurence King Publishing revealed this week.
The book has been quite successful around the globe, but the Chinese success is unparalleled. The Guardian has the scoop:
As the Beijing international book fair takes place this week, Laurence King Publishing said that Secret Garden had sold 6.8m copies around the world, with 3m of these sales in China, where it was published on 1 June. The title has also been a major hit in Brazil, where it has sold just over 1.1m copies, said Laurence King, with 650,421 copies sold in the US, half a million in South Korea, and 477,658 in the UK to date.