Ethan & Choco's Book Club

Striving to make access to books and reading a core part of the care that kids receive in the hospital, with the premise that literacy support for children fighting cancer and other life-altering conditions can help promote cognitive health and social connections that are part of thriving through treatment and beyond


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Thank You Canyon High School!

Thank you to Canyon High School for your recent donation of 116 new books, and a big thank you to Canyon’s Babysitters Club for their great efforts in organizing a book drive at their school! The Babysitters Club promoted the book drive, made nine colorful donation boxes to place around campus, worked with teachers to set up incentives, and organized and delivered the books. We can’t wait to get these awesome books to patients at CHOC next week!


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Thank you, AGAIN, Hicks Canyon Elementary!

THANK YOU Hicks Canyon Elementary School PTA and families for hosting another book drive for ECBC and for your donation this week of 93 new books. Per their usual, Hicks’ donation included all wonderful high-interest titles, including a handful of graphic novels and beginning reading books which we really need. Hicks Canyon conducted the book drive alongside their school’s book fair, which works so well for elementary schools since parents are visiting the fair anyway to purchase books for their kids and teachers (and schools usually benefit in the form of Scholastic points from the increased sales).

Thank you Hicks for being one of ECBC’s few “regular” donors (aka “Thrive Partner Schools”). We so appreciate our Thrive Partner Schools as they provide passive book income for us that we can count on — which our tiny nonprofit very much needs. A special thank you to Tina Jussal for making this (and every) Hicks book drive happen!