The 2021/2022 Inprint Cool Brains! Reading Series currently takes place in-person and features Jerry Craft, Gordon Korman, Dan Santat, and Erin Entrada Kelly.

In 2004, Inprint launched a family reading series now called the Inprint Cool Brains! Reading Series. The series brings the country’s most exciting children’s authors to Houston for readings and book signings, free and open to the public. Each of the writers gives a lively presentation about their work and then takes questions from the audience. The on-stage portion of the event is followed by a book sale and signing, where kids can meet their favorite authors. With book giveaways to families and bus scholarships available for student groups, the series helps inspire a love of reading in children.

Inprint conducts three to four readings per year, and audiences have ranged from 100 – 1,000 attendees. The series has featured leading middle-grade authors, including Kwame Alexander, Katherine Applegate, Pseudonymous Bosch, Christopher Paul Curtis, Chris Grabenstein, Lois Lowry, Meg Medina, R. J. Palacio, Katherine Paterson, Gary Paulsen, Jon Scieszka, Jacqueline Woodson, and many others.

To see photos and clippings from past readings, click here.

To visit the Inprint Archive of Readings, click here.