Summer Reading Program

Free Theater Show! 

Join us for a special show featuring Express Children’s Theatre and their exciting performance, Shyrana Saurus Rex! Little ones will enjoy a lively, interactive show filled with storytelling, imagination, and prehistoric fun. Perfect for preschoolers and their caregivers—don’t miss this dino-mite adventure at the library!

*Best suited for PreK–5th grade, but designed to be fun and engaging for all ages, including younger children and adults.

Note: We cannot host daycare groups for this program.

Help us welcome the Houston Grand Opera to Aldine Library! 

We are bringing children's books to life through song with our beloved program Storybook Opera! Storybook Opera! supports literacy development with interactive, singing storytellers. This program is perfect for children in Grades Pre-K through 2!

Recommended for children ages 4-12.

Tommy Terrific presents A Magical Dinosaur Dig! 

This interactive magic show features a giant magic trunk filled with dinosaur fossils and exploration tools. With the help of the Magician’s Handbook, kids guide Tommy on a magical adventure where the world of dinosaurs comes alive in wacky and unexpected ways. From the T. rex to the Triceratops and beyond, young audiences will uncover fun facts about dinosaurs and the age in which they lived.

Get ready for a magical adventure with John O’Bryant’s 2026 Summer Reading Magic Show! This all-new performance is packed with mind-blowing magic, dazzling illusions, and plenty of laugh-out-loud surprises. Come see the impossible happen right before your eyes!

John O’Bryant is a featured family magician at the LOL Comedy Club and a frequent headliner at SeaWorld Adventure Parks.

Climb aboard the Voyager, Clear Creek ISD’s bookmobile bringing stories, creativity, and discovery to your neighborhood.

Each stop features a new adventure as we spark your imagination and a love for reading!

Join us for this come and go event to pick up free books, engage in activities, and take home a makerspace activity.

Adults – the Next Chapter Monday Matinee continues Monday, June 22 at 2:00 PM in our upstairs Innovation Lab Classroom. We look forward to seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark, the 1981 action-adventure movie set in 1936 which introduced Indiana Jones. This film stars Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Wolf Kahler, and Ronald Lacey. Rated PG, Raiders of the Lost Ark lasts 1 hour, 55 minutes and includes Closed Captions.

Climb aboard the Voyager, Clear Creek ISD’s bookmobile bringing stories, creativity, and discovery to your neighborhood.

Each stop features a new adventure as we spark your imagination and a love for reading!

Join us for this come and go event to pick up free books, engage in activities, and take home a makerspace activity.

Recommended for children 5-12 years old. Choose from a variety of vinyl designs to decorate and heat-press your very own summer t-shirt!

Bring your own plain shirt or use a white shirt provided at the event.

No ticket required. Until supplies last. 

Climb aboard the Voyager, Clear Creek ISD’s bookmobile bringing stories, creativity, and discovery to your neighborhood.

Each stop features a new adventure as we spark your imagination and a love for reading!

Join us for this come and go event to pick up free books, engage in activities, and take home a makerspace activity.

This is a two session program in which teens will make their own stop-motion short-film from start to finish! All materials, tools, and snacks will be provided. 

This program is for teens ages13-18.