Ethan & Choco’s Book Club was honored to be part of Miracles for Kids’ holiday party today for CHOC patients and families living at Miracle Manor (a home subsidized by Miracles for Kids for low-income CHOC families with critically ill children). ECBC Board member and bedside reader Susie provided a holiday-themed storytime for the kids and then passed out new, age-appropriate holiday books for all patients and siblings. All books were also packaged with handwritten holiday cards from local elementary and high school students — thank you to Tustin and Placentia students for providing such thoughtful cards. We love adding books and reading to these families’ holiday festivities (and how amazing that during the festivities, Miracles for Kids volunteers are busy decorating each of the family’s apartments for Christmas!). Thank you Miracles for Kids for letting ECBC participate in this event for our 6th consecutive year, thank you Susie for representing ECBC and delivering literary joy, and thank you to those who donated holiday-themed books for the kiddos!
If you haven’t had a chance to donate a holiday book, Ethan is still running our December holiday book drive. Click HERE to donate.
This is a quick shout-out to ECBC’s amazing group of “expert reader” volunteers who helped bring books and reading to patients at CHOC Children’s Hospital this month. Our volunteers offered bedside reading with high-quality literature in patients’ rooms, gave away new books from our mobile Gifting Library Cart to patients in isolation, gifted holiday-themed books as part of MaxLove’s holiday Be Super Party, and delivered 100+ books to CHOC’s Outpatient Infusion Center. December is such a busy month for everyone — thank you Susie, Sandy, Cindi, Julie, Debbie, and Fenny for making the time to make sure that the kiddos at CHOC receive some reading and a new book this holiday season!
Ethan & Choco’s Book Club had a FANTASTIC morning handing out Halloween-themed books to patients yesterday as part of CHOC’s annual trick-or-treating event! We gave away around 300 terrific books to dressed-up patients of all ages — from toddlers to teens and from board books to young adult literature. We also delivered another 100 Halloween books to kids visiting CHOC’s Outpatient Infusion Center for chemo. It was especially fun to be offering healthier treats!
We had so much fun at the Orange County Children’s Book Festival on Sunday! Our booth was off to the side, so we weren’t sure how much traffic we’d have — but we had a ton of visitors (probably helped by the giant Spin Wheel we had out!). Ethan tirelessly shared his story of diagnosis, founding ECBC, what we’re doing now, and his someday dream for CHOC and all Children’s Hospitals at least 100 times — resulting in some monetary and book donations, and lots of awareness raised. And, Ethan got a particular kick out of the handful of people who came to our booth and said, ‘I know who you are, I follow ECBC on Facebook” or “We’ve been read to at CHOC by one of your bedside readers.” We hope to keep increasing our visibility in the community and our impact!
