Lit with Families 2025 Texas Family Literacy Festival
*The event has already taken place on this date: Sat, 11/15/2025
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The Texas Family Literacy Festival is Story Square's flagship event of the year!
Story Square thoughtfully designs this space to invite families to use their unique superpower to illuminate the wonder of literacy with unparalleled pizazz.
Communities of families from all over Texas come to indulge in fun that is specific to the Texas Family Literacy Festival.
This full fun family learning day at Discovery Green promises a joyful and imaginative adventure that only uncovering the power and freedom of literacy can bring!
So, journey to downtown Houston's Discovery Green to experience a haven made annually just for families to celebrate the bliss of reading...together!
We will have special programmatic features that put the creativity and the barrier-deconstructing brain of Story Square on display.
- Family Tree STEMulus - super scientific stimulation
- Hide and Seuss
- Boogie Famland - Family Dance Party Special and Square Dance Competition
- Alphamagician Stage
- The Festival Piclits
- Alphabet Magic Booths
- 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
- The 2025 Alphamagician Book Competition Award Announcement
- Litville - lit fun for our older Story Square visitors
- Alphaletics Games
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!
CLICK HERE 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, CLICK HERE 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, please click here.
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, CLICK HERE.
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: litwithfamilies@ourstorysquare.com
Authors
Do you have a children's book you authored that you want to share with Texas Family Literacy Festival families?
If so, Email: litwithfamilies@ourstorysquare.com 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: litwithfamilies@ourstorysquare.com 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: litwithfamilies@ourstorysquare.com to learn how you can put your group's talent on display.
QUESTIONS?: Email litwithfamilies@ourstorysquare.com
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!
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