Sign up to our emails and be the first to know about new releases, special offers and more.
Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!
Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre to view your orders, change your details, or view your lists, or sign out.
Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Eloise Greenfield
What happens when the family closes the front door and leaves the house for an outing? "The head of cabbage, sitting in the fridge, hears the front door close, hears…
Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order
Wade Hudson
A moving look at a Black family's journey to exercise their right to vote and imagine a better future.
Sherri Duskey Rinker
A rip-roaring rescue adventure that celebrates the teamwork of man and machine, written by mega-bestselling author Sherri Duskey Rinker and illustrated by award-winning artist Don Tate-now in paperback!
Order online and we’ll ship when availablePre-order now
Don Tate
"'...a memoir that is at once dramatic, disturbing, sexually charged, and often very funny, but ultimately a moving portrait of a man who has found the inner strength to overcome....'…
Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order
May 1969 the Vietnam War Atrocities, Curruption, Murder. The Falsification of History. Anzacs Betrayed is a companion piece to the best-selling memoir, The War Within. Don Tate now provides an…
In God’s Garden…an allegory. The Christian church is in tatters. Not only is it failing to adhere to the Word in so many ways, it fails to mount a credible…
The War Within is a complex, virtuoso analysis of an Australian life written by an unabashed and unrepentant author- an acidic dissertation on the roles of genes, environment and litany…
The remarkable, little-known story of the man known as the Father of the Underground Railroad, from beloved, award-winning author-illustrator Don Tate.
He realized how football and art were one and the same. Both required rhythm. Both required technique. Passing, pulling, breaking down the field-that was an art.
Young Ernie Barnes wasn’t…
Available to order, ships in 5-9 daysAvailable to order
In the nineteenth century, North Carolina slave George Moses Horton taught himself to read and earned money to purchase his time though not his freedom. Horton became the first African…
Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order
Introduces the life of Eugen Sandow, including his sickly childhood in Prussia, his defeat of strongmen Sampson and Cyclops, and his founding of the Great Competition in 1901.
From award-winning author-illustrator Don Tate comes a remarkable picture book biography of William Still, known as Father of the Underground Railroad. William Still’s parents escaped slavery but had to leave…
Eve Bunting,Don Tate
The strength and spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. permeates this quiet yet affecting picture book about his funeral held in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1968. It offers a unique…
Tonya Bolden,Don Tate
This picture book chronicles the incredible true story of how one of history’s most successful potato farmers began life as a slave and worked until he was named the Potato…
Eve Bunting
A unique chronicle of the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr., focusing on the cart used to transport his coffin through the streets of Atlanta, Georgia. The book also features…
Deborah Hopkinson
Essential Black History Reading
The first-ever picture book biography of Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History Month
Carter G. Woodson Book Award (Honor Book), NCSS Parents’ Choice Silver…
Chris Barton
This biography, with its informative backmatter and splendid illustrations, gives readers an in-depth look at the Reconstruction period through the life of one of the first African-American congressmen.
Patricia Hubbell
A young girl discovers all the wonderful and beautiful things around her that are black.
Audrey Vernick
Effa always loved baseball. As a young woman, she would go to Yankee Stadium just to see Babe Ruth’s mighty swing. But she never dreamed she would someday own a…
One of top 20 toys of all time, the Super Soaker water gun was invented entirely by accident. Trying to create a new cooling system for refrigerators and air conditioners…
The vegetables decide to have a dance party while the family is out.
Michael Mahin
Based on a true story, this vibrant, inspirational picture book about self-reliance and the power of creativity and music follows a group of homeless kids in 19th-century New Orleans who…
This engaging picture book biography explores how Jerry Lawson, a Black engineer, revolutionized the video game industry, perfect for fans of Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions and Little…
Chris Barton,Don Tate
A Junior Library Guild selection –Back cover.
Suzanne Slade
The true story of the high-flying Harlem Globetrotters – the team that changed basketball forever.
Essential Black History Reading;;The first-ever picture book biography of Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History Month;;Carter G. Woodson Book Award (Honor Book), NCSS;Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Award;Chicago Public…
A biography of self-taught (outsider) artist Bill Traylor, a former slave who at the age of 85 began to draw pictures based on his memories and observations of rural and…
Anna Harwell Celenza,Don Tate
Tells the story of how jazz composer and musician Duke Ellington, along with Billy Strayhorn, created his jazz composition based on Tchaikovsky’s famous Nutcracker Suite ballet. Includes author’s note.
Kelly Starling Lyons
A runaway slave during the Civil War, Hope’s father returns after the Emancipation Proclamation as a member of the U.S. Colored Troops. Affectingly written and gorgeously illustrated, this poignant story…
A rip-roaring rescue adventure that celebrates the teamwork of man and machine, written by mega-bestselling author Sherri Duskey Rinker and illustrated by award-winning artist Don Tate.
Don Tate,Sherri Duskey Rinker
Book 2 in the rip-roaring rescue adventure series that celebrates the teamwork of man and machine, written by mega-bestselling author Sherri Duskey Rinker and illustrated by award-winning artist Don Tate.
Martha Hamilton,Mitch Weiss
When the barnyard animals are invited to a party by their neighbors, they dress in their Sunday best and set off for a day of merriment. But when dinnertime arrives…
Rose Blue,Corinne Naden
Based on the life of Challenger astronaut Ron McNair, this inspiring book tells the story of how a determined African-American boy desegregated his town’s public library though peaceful resistance. Full…
