Hubbs Children's Literature Conference
This conference is designed to share contemporary children’s literature and issues with education alumni, students, teachers, children’s librarians, and all who are interested in quality literature written for children.
For over 30 years, the University of St. Thomas has proudly hosted the Hubbs Children's Literature Conference. All are welcome, including teachers, parents, students, librarians, writers and anyone interested in encouraging the use of quality children’s literature in homes, schools and communities.
Each year features award-winning authors and illustrators whose books have made an impact in classrooms. Past speakers include Nikki Grimes, Bryan Collier, Kwame Alexander, Jacqueline Woodson, Emily Arnold McCully, Marion Dane Bauer, Eric Rohmann, Jane Yolen and Christopher Paul Curtis.
The conference is made possible thanks to a generous endowment established by Twin Cities philanthropist and prolific reader Ronald M. Hubbs and his wife, Margaret. This endowment also supports the Hubbs Children's Literature Collection, which includes picture books and fiction and nonfiction for grades K-12. View the collection at the university's Charles J. Keffer Library in Minneapolis.
Hubbs Children's Literature Conference
Thank you to all who joined us at the 2025 Hubbs Children's Literature Conference. Special thanks to our featured guests: author and poet Ty Chapman and young adult novelist John Coy.
We look forward to seeing you in 2027! Stay tuned for details. (No conference will be held in 2026.)
Hubbs Children's Collection
The Hubbs family endowment also supports the Hubbs Children's Literature Collection, which includes picture books and fiction and nonfiction for grades K-12. View the collection at the university's Charles J. Keffer Library in Minneapolis.
A Love of Books
Meet Our Donors
A devotee of books since the age of five, Ronald M. Hubbs collected over 4,000 books for his personal library. A successful businessman and philanthropist, he made time to participate in Great Books discussion groups for over 40 years and once served on the Governor's Committee on Illiteracy.
He and his wife, Margaret, generously established the Hubbs endowment in 1992, at which time the university launched the Hubbs Children's Literature Conference in gratitude for their generous financial and literary gifts. The Hubbs endowment funds also were used to establish the extensive and ever-growing children's literature collection at St. Thomas.