Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
  Delivering Next Generation Care
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The Betty Malkerson Library at Children's - Minneapolis and the Hideaway Library at Children's - St. Paul provide positive educational, informational, and recreational materials and programs to help patients and their families understand and adjust to their hospital experience.

Our commitment to delivering next generation care includes helping patients and siblings learn more about a diagnosis, and become actively involved in their hospital care. It also means helping families escape from the stress of a hospital stay. Children's libraries offer a wealth of resources for parents to use with their children.

Check Us Out

The library is accessible to all patients, siblings, parents, and hospital staff. Library staff are available during library hours to assist in selecting appropriate materials and to help children use computers. Some of the resources and activities available in our libraries include:

Activities and games
Book request form (PDF)
Computers
Fun sheets / Coloring books
Recommended Web links for patients
Volunteer bookwagon

Library Hours


Children’s - Minneapolis
Malkerson Children’s Library
Sixth floor
Temporarily moved to Sibling Play Area, 2nd floor
Monday – Friday
9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday - Friday
(612) 813-6265

Children’s - St. Paul
The Hideaway Children’s Library
Temporarily moved to the Family Resource Center, 4th floor,
Suite 403

(651) 220-6368
7 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday - Friday (staffed beginning at 9 a.m.)
Weekend hours vary