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, Again, NCL North Tustin!

Thank you NCL North Tustin for hosting yet another book drive, this time a Halloween book drive, and your usual amazing results! ECBC just received NCL’s donation of 258 new books — 236 of them specifically Halloween-themed for ECBC’s upcoming Halloween book gifting events at CHOC. Also, every book came with a handmade Halloween-themed bookmark, many of them so beautifully done!

A special thank you to Ali, Kendall, and Haley Langdon for organizing the book drive, collecting/bookplating/sorting the books, and delivering them!

THANK YOU NCL for your ongoing support of ECBC! Over the past several years, you have donated more than $11,000 worth of new books; you have helped CHOC patients to read, think, and thrive through life-altering treatment and long hospital stays. We have so appreciated you!


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Thank You NCL North Tustin!

THANK YOU to National Charity League North Tustin for your June book drive and your INCREDIBLE effort! ECBC just received NCL’s donation of 444 new books of EVERY type, including board books, picture books, learn-to-read books, nonfiction/information books, graphic novels, easy chapter books, middle grade chapter books, teen/YA books, Spanish-language books, and poetry! Also, every book came with an inserted beautiful handmade bookmark — a bookmark per book is such a cool gesture that we’ve never received before! And a special thank you to Ali, Kendall, and Haley Langdon for organizing the book drive, collecting/bookplating/sorting the books, and delivering them!  We so appreciate NCL North Tustin’s ongoing support!


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Thank You Arvida!

Thank you Arvida Book Co and Arvida’s amazing customers for the 132 new books they donated last month! These books came in as a result of Arvida’s “flash tattoo” fundraiser to celebrate Independent Book Store Day (donate a book, get a free flash tattoo) as well as an in-person visit by best-selling children’s author Stuart Gibbs (where a generous customer purchased a large number of Gibbs books to donate). Arvida is one of ECBC’s few long-standing community partners that hosts regular book drives for ECBC, and we appreciate their support so very much!

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Thank you Baum Squad!

THANK YOU to Baum Orthodontics in Tustin for the 117 new books! These will all be part of our delivery this Friday of approximately 500 books to CHOC’s Outpatient Infusion Center and the Oncology Clinic, where patients get to pick out a new book at every visit.

We are so grateful for our ongoing 5-years long partnership with Baum Ortho! And we so appreciate Dr. Baum’s ingenious retainer replacement program, where patients who have lost their retainer receive a greatly discounted price for their new retainer if they donate some new children’s books. We’ve now received thousands of books from Baum families….apparently kids are losing a ton of retainers!

Thank you Baum Ortho (and Baum Ortho families) for your incredible continued support!


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THANK YOU Baum Orthodontics!

We just picked up 160 books from Baum Ortho, who has collected books for ECBC on an ongoing basis for FIVE years now. Most books are donated through their retainer replacement program, where patients who have lost their retainer receive a greatly discounted price for their replacement retainer if they donate some new children’s books. How ingenious (and generous of Baum and co) is that?!

Baum Orthodontics is of several of ECBC’s Community Thrive Partners, which are community businesses who continue to support ECBC from year to year. We give out 500-600 new books per month to kids at CHOC Children’s Hospital, and these partnerships (along with our Thrive Partner Schools) are how we keep our gifting programs going. Thrive Partners are especially helpful for our tiny all volunteer-based nonprofit organization because they provide our charity with much-needed passive bookraising opportunities. Thank you Baum Ortho (and Baum Ortho families) for your incredible ongoing support!

If you are a Tustin or nearby business and interested in having a book collection box onsite, or if you are a philanthropic organization and want to host a book drive, please email ali@ECbookclub.com. Per hospital infectious disease rules, all books must be brand new.