Thank you Myford Elementary School for your amazing donation this week of 309 new books (mostly for our Gifting Library)!!!  This is our most significant school donation yet! This donation included terrific titles for all ages and interests, including highly popular chapter books and picture books (e.g., I Survived books, Percy Jackson books, Roald Dahl books, Judy Blume books; Magic Tree House books, Beverly Cleary books, Weird School books, many Newbery winners, high interest graphic novels, and much more). We now have a heightened need for new book donations since we are giving away so many at CHOC, and especially since we are getting ready to launch the first phase of our inpatient program on the patient floors at CHOC!

Also, a HUGE thank you to Myford Elementary teacher Mrs. Danielle Clawson for organizing this awesome effort (and of course to Principal Rena Fairchild for supporting it)! Mrs. Clawson rallied her school behind a school-wide Scholastic book drive, where they attached a cover letter to students’ Scholastic Book Club order forms that were sent home, giving parents the opportunity to order books for hospitalized kids. We are so excited that so many Myford families contributed!

Scholastic Book Club orders are such a terrific and easy way for schools to bookraise for ECBC, because book collection efforts can occur alongside schools’ already existing Scholastic book order programs. Teachers benefit too, because the additional book purchases earn them more points for receiving books for their classroom libraries. We are finding that attaching a cover letter to book order forms is an easy way to do this — Click here  to download this letter. You may also email us at ECBC@maxloveproject.org to receive an editable version of this letter that can be modified to work for your school. Please consider following Myford Elementary’s lead and organizing a school-wide Scholastic Book Club book drive! We want to add more schools to our small starter list of ECBC Thrive Partner Schools!

Thank you Myford Elementary and Mrs. Clawson, we appreciate you so much!