The Storybook Garden

08/02/2026

🦈 Since it was Shark Week, we hosted a shark-inspired storytime today!

We shared shark facts from the book Exploring Sharks by J i l l M c D o n a l d, one of our favorite author illustrators. Readers learned to draw their own shark, too!

📚 Join us every Saturday for Storytime at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Each week features a new theme, a great book, and a fun activity. We’d love for you to join us soon!

❤️ Celebrating 25 years of growing readers in our community.

08/01/2026

Happy Birthday, Harry! ⚡ Our family celebrated with a cozy movie night featuring Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and a Hagrid-inspired birthday cake. 🎂✨

Also sharing a few memories from our Harry Potter and the Cursed Child midnight book release party 10 years ago. Time flies, but the magic never fades. 📚🪄

07/24/2026

07/24/2026

Join us this Saturday as we kick off Chapter 25 at The Storybook Garden!
We're celebrating the beginning of our 25th anniversary year, and our friends from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Plants will be joining us! Books, stories, and anniversary fun! 📖👩🏻‍🌾🪴

🪴Spend $20 or more at our bookshop and your child can paint their own pot to take home plus receive a special surprise for your outdoor garden from the plant bus! Grownups can join in on the fun, too!

🌱Our friends will also be teaching about the amazing loofah plant (which grows beautifully in our area), and offering fun, educational insights about native and garden-friendly plants.

🌱 It's a wonderful opportunity to get your hands dirty, learn something new, and celebrate with us. We can't wait to see you!

07/15/2026

Join the 2026 recipient of the Texas Writer Award David Bowles and award-winning best-selling author Gudalupe García McCall as they talk about and read from their latest books!📚

David’s new graphic novel is THE HERO TWINS IN THE REALM OF FRIGHT, which retells the Maya legend of two extraordinary brothers who descend into the underworld to free their father and uncle by beating the Lords of Death on the ball court!

Guadalupe’s new MG fantasy novel is FALL OF THE FIREFLIES, in which twins Velia and Delia take on a divine assignment to be monster-hunting warrior women and save their father’s life.

A selection of the authors’ other award-winning work will be on hand as well.

07/13/2026

07/05/2026

🇺🇸 As America celebrates 250 years, we’re celebrating 25 years of stories, community, and the joy of reading at The Storybook Garden!

Looking back through these 🇺🇸memories reminds us how grateful we are for the freedom to gather, to learn, to imagine, and the freedom to read. 📖 ♥️🤍💙

Thank you for being part of our story for the past 25 years. We can’t wait to make many more memories together!

Happy Independence Day! ❤️🤍💙

06/30/2026

📢 Bookshop Announcement 📢

We’re taking a little time to enjoy some summer family time and will be closed today, Saturday, July 11th. ☀️ Thank you for your understanding! See you on Tuesday!

04/25/2026

Book💛lovers of Weslaco, let’s hop to it!
Visit and this Saturday for the second annual Weslaco Bookshop Hop! 📚
Get your passport stamped at each stop and celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with a little extra fun (and maybe a prize)!

04/03/2026

Our bookshop is closed for the Easter weekend to spend time with family. We hope you and yours have a blessed weekend! Happy Easter!