Lit with Families 2025 Texas Family Literacy Festival at Discovery Green
Schedule
Sat Nov 15 2025 at 10:00 am to 06:30 pm
UTC-06:00Location
Discovery Green | Houston, TX

About this Event
Journey to Discovery Green for Story Square's Lit with Families 2025 Texas Family Literacy Festival!
Once a year, we design a space just for families to illuminate the wonder of literacy together.
As long as you register your family here on Eventbrite, there is no cost (FREE!) for this unforgettable alphabetastic day!
We will transform Discovery Green into a haven for families with the bliss that alphabet magic brings.
This day is sure to enchant families with children of all ages. Come and inspire your children to fall in love with literacy, the one skill that will hold your child's, or the child you love, imagination to dream of the impossible.
A full day of FUN festival family learning awaits! So, come and enjoy!
- Yummy food vendors
- Giveaways (books and raffle prizes)
- Prizes galore
- Special booths to charm everyone in the family
- Facepainting
- Performances from local schools and organizations
- Balloon art
- Delicious Dessert Vendors
And, extraordinary specific-to-Story-Square edutainment that will showcase the enchantment of learning, reading, and writing for families to uncover together.
- Free Books
- Meet-the-Author
- Family Tree STEMulus - super scientific stimulation
- Boogie Famland - Family Dance Party Special and Square Dance Competition
- Our Lighthearted Reading Hollow
- Piclits
- Alphabet Magic Booth
- A Famagination Zone to encourage families to stretch their imaginations together
- Kinder Garden for our youngest Story Square visitors with hourly puppet shows
- Bluebonnet Book Brawl - a family-feud style name that book contest
- Alphamagician Book Competition Award Announcement
- Litville - lit fun for our older Story Square visitors
All the readers in your house - those just learning and those ready to share their love of reading - will fall in love with the uniquely designed fun at Story Square!
We cannot wait to see you there in Story Square!
Let's Glow Together!
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- Instagram: @story.square
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- E mail: [email protected]
- Website: Ourstorysquare.com
Thinking about how you want to participate in the festival's impact?
We included the multiplicity of ways you, as an individual, family, or your organization can get involved in the Texas Family Literacy Festival. You can also email inquiries about any of the festival involvement directly to [email protected].
Texas Families - Do you want to read together and win prizes? Register!
Does your family want to have fun together reading and competing for a chance to be the reigning 2025 Bluebonnet Book Brawl champion? The Texas Family Literacy Festival Fun and Games Committee invites Texas families to register for the Bluebonnet Book Brawl, a family-feud-style, name-that-book competition.
Regsiter, review the rules, and read eight books. Thank you, Texas Library Association's Bluebonnet Book List and Alphamagician Book Competition Award Winners, Lauren Harris and Isai Gutierrez!
to complete the registration form.
Sponsors and Partners
Are you interested in 1) marketing your company to 1000s of Texas attendees, 2) showing support for family literacy and family educational interactions, 3) optimizing the exposure to 1000s of attendees that an organization could gain from partnering with the Texas Family Literacy Festival?
If so, to review the Story Square's Lit with Families 2025 Sponsorship Packet.
If you know you would like to sponsor or partner with the festival, .
Vendors
Do you have a product or service that Texas Moms, Dads, grandparents, or children should know about or buy for themselves or loved ones? Do you have something to sell, share, or want to optimize exposure to your company or organization via a vendor's booth?
If so, .
Volunteers
Are you interested in ensuring that every family enjoys the fun of the festival and leaves with a fun family learning memory in their heart by serving as a festival volunteer?
Email: [email protected]
Authors
Do you have a children's book you authored that you want to share with Texas Family Literacy Festival families?
If so, Email: [email protected] to learn how you can share your book with thousands of festival attendees.
Please note: Story Square adores authors. So, there are two ways for authors to get involved in the festival fun.
1. Authors may get involved as festival sponsors, vendors, and apply to read their own books. AND/OR
2. Authors may submit their picture book(s) to be considered for the Alphamagician Book Competition. Email: [email protected] info on Alphamagician Award.
PERFORMERS
Do you belong to or instruct a talented group of young performers, artists, singers, dancers, poets, instrumentalists, or magicians?
If so, Email: [email protected] to learn how you can put your group's talent on display.
Want to know more about Story Square, the chair of the Texas Family Literacy Festival, and the issues that we were founded on to combat and eliminate, along with data about the festival? If so, click here!
QUESTIONS?: Email [email protected]
This year's Texas Family Literacy Festival will be Alphabetastic!
Story Square has crafted an alphabet-worthy list of unforgettable fun just waiting for families!
- A lphabet Magic Booths
- B oogie Famland - a family dance party and BOOKS!
- Contests - for families and for children's book authors celebration
- Drawing for family prizes
- E xcellent specialty goods from vendors across Texas
- F acepainting from local artists and lots FREE stuff
- G oodies to take home and keep the fun family learning activities going
- H appy times galore
- I magination zones we call Famagination Zone
- J oy-filled moments
- K ids witnessing how cool literacy really is!
- L ove for our Texas communities all in one place
- Magic musical entertainment from local schools and groups around Texas
- N ecklaces, earrings, rings for sell made by our local jewelry makers and vendors
- O ption for free tickets when you register on EVENTBRITE
- P erformances from local schools and studios
- Q uizzes for family trivia
- R eading tips for families to make the best of their time when sharing a sweet fun family literacy moment at home
- Slides and playground fun
- Themes of popular children's books for reminiscing
- U niqueness at every square-inch
- Victorious feeling on your ride home! You did what only 2.5% of Americans do...have an educational interaction with your child!
- Water, water everywhere
- Xylophones for music fun together
- Yayyyys!! Lots and lots of YAYYYY!
- Zany family fun!
Agenda
Texas Families Rise and Shine!
Where is it happening?
Discovery Green, 1500 McKinney Street, Houston, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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