Twelve early-reader adventures across four collections — bike races, time travel, volcano cakes, and kid-run businesses. Read them here, then keep the fun going in the Little Readers app. Every story is read-aloud friendly and ends with one lesson worth talking about.
Kids come for the adventures. Parents stay for books they can trust — here's what every Little Readers story promises:
Every main character is a Black child — smart, curious, brave, and running the show.
Big, clear type and lively dialogue that sounds great read aloud at bedtime — or in the classroom.
Each story wraps up with one clear takeaway — perfect for a two-minute talk after "the end."
Sized for growing readers — challenging enough to stretch, friendly enough to finish with a win.
Four collections, twelve adventures. Tap a collection to jump straight to it — or scroll the whole shelf.
Three stories from the neighborhood — the bikes, the block parties, and the friends who feel like family.
Book 1 of 3
Jay's bike isn't the fanciest on the block — but it's the one he takes care of. When the big neighborhood bike race rolls around, it's time to show the whole block what ready looks like.
Book 2 of 3
Biscuit the dog is missing and the whole block is worried. While everyone else panics, Jay stays calm, makes a plan, and rounds up help.
Book 3 of 3
It's the annual block party cook-off and the competition is ON. Every cook on the block is bringing their best dish — including Jay.
Tre's pocket watch ticks — and he's off to meet real Black history heroes, face to face.
Book 1 of 3
One tick of the pocket watch and Tre is standing next to a young Garrett Morgan, hard at work on an idea that could change the street forever.
Book 2 of 3
Tre travels back in time and finds himself on a very important bus — where he witnesses Rosa Parks' brave stand with his own eyes.
Book 3 of 3
Tre meets Madam C.J. Walker and gets a peek inside her world — the jars, the workers, and the big dream behind it all.
Nia's notebook is full of questions — and she's not stopping until she finds the answers.
Book 1 of 3
It's Nia's birthday — but her cake has other plans. One scoop of baking powder later, dessert turns into a full-blown science experiment.
Book 2 of 3
Armed with big plans for the first week of summer, Nia builds, tests, breaks, fixes — and finally flies her stomp rocket.
Book 3 of 3
On a hot August night, Nia climbs up with her notebook and discovers the constellations hiding in plain sight.
Kid entrepreneurs earning, saving, and growing — one honest dollar at a time. Home of Jay's Money Adventures.
Book 1 of 3
Jay's grandma pays him ten dollars to cut her grass — and just like that, a business is born. Now he needs a crew, a price, and a plan.
Book 2 of 3
Maya makes bracelets like nobody's business — everybody wants one. Turning her hobby into a real shop means learning her numbers.
Book 3 of 3
Two lemonade stands, one hot Saturday, and a price war nobody can win. Lower prices! Bigger cups! Something's gotta give.
The bookshelf lives here — the reading happens everywhere. The Little Readers app puts all twelve stories in your pocket, so storytime never has to wait for the bookshelf.
Website + app, built to go together — buy it here, read it there.
The money heart of the Bookshop. Every Business Kids story teaches one real money move kids can say out loud — and use for life.
Money comes from work. You earn it by helping. Jay rakes leaves, walks Biscuit, and learns his first dollar feels different.
Three jars on the table: most goes to SAVE for the big goal, some to SPEND for fun, and some to SHARE for helping others.
Price the job right, split the money fairly, show up on time. Knowing your numbers turns a hobby into a business.
Little Readers Bookshop was created by Maurice Washington — "Mo Bucks" — a Philly dad who wanted his daughters, and kids everywhere, to open a book and see themselves on page one: brave, curious, running businesses, asking big questions, and meeting the heroes who came before them.
Every collection is built the same way: a real adventure, a real lesson, and characters who look like the kids reading them. Because when a child sees themselves as the hero, reading stops being homework — it becomes a mirror.
— Maurice "Mo Bucks" Washington, Philadelphia
