Happy Drop Everything and Read Day

Top Children's and Young Adult Book Google Searches by State

Fill: Percent of total population under age 18

Yellow indicates a lower youth share. Red indicates a higher youth share. Click a state for details.

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State geometry: us-atlas. Color ramp: pct_under_18 from ACS 2023-derived state data. Built with D3, TopoJSON, SheetJS, and Web Mapper GPT.

Happy Drop Everything and Read Day

Top Children's and Young Adult Book Google Searches by State

D.E.A.R. stands for Drop Everything and Read. The celebration is tied to Beverly Cleary’s birthday and the reading ritual made famous in the Ramona books. This map pairs state-level book-interest studies with ACS 2023 youth population data to celebrate children’s and YA reading.

Data sources

Children's books: 95 Percent Group statewide Google-search analysis, July 2021 to July 2023.
Young adult books: Fusion Academy Google Trends analysis of YA best-seller titles during 2025 / past 12 months.
Population under 18: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 1-year profile data.
State fill: Percent of total population under age 18 using the pct_under_18 field.

Tools used: D3, TopoJSON, SheetJS, Made with WebMapGPT, Ian Muehlenhaus, Map Design Commission of the ICA.

Sources and credits

Datasets

Workbook: DEAD April 12.xlsx loaded directly in-browser.
ACS 2023 1-year profile data
us-atlas states TopoJSON

Symbolization

State fills symbolize the share of the total population under age 18 using the pct_under_18 field.
Yellow-to-red sequential ramp highlights lower to higher youth-share states.

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