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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Outpatient Holiday Book Delivery!

Earlier this week we delivered a TON (421, to be exact) of new December holiday-themed books to our gifting libraries at CHOC Children’s Outpatient Infusion Center (OPI) and CHOC’s Oncology Clinic! This means that patients who visit the oncology clinic or OPI in the days leading up to Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza can choose to pick out a holiday book (as an alternative to the usual mainstream literature) — with an array of terrific titles for patients ranging from infants/toddlers to teen and young adults. THANK YOU to all who donated and helped Orange County’s hospitalized kids to thrive through the holidays with books and reading!


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Holiday Books are on our Inpatient Gifting Cart!

ECBC’s Bedside Readers commenced our holiday read-alouds at the start of the month, and today we loaded up our inpatient gifting cart with December holiday themed books to start our gifting on the inpatient side of the hospital…which will continue for the next couple of weeks up until Christmas. We also are handing out handwritten holiday cards made by high school students from Foothill, Beckman, and El Dorado High. It is such a joy to share high-quality holiday literature with patients of all ages, and we love having a variety of options for their diversity of reading interests!

If you’d like to help provide us with holiday books, please go to our wishlist at bit.ly/decemberholidaybooks . All books will be bookplated with donor names! #holidaybooks #literaryjoy #readingthroughtheholidays #readthinkthrive #thriveagainstncancer


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Two Days Left of BOOK IT!

There are two days left of ECBC’s annual BOOK IT fundraiser, and we are at just 40% of our fundraising goal. We are hoping for a strong finish in our final two days as we need to do significantly better to keep funding all of our book and reading programs and CHOC Children’s Hospital. Each day of these last few days, I have been sharing a photo of an Oncology kiddo at CHOC whom our programs have benefited. Today we have two featured warriors: Blake, holding one of the two Halloween-themed books he received from ECBC’s annual BOO-ks for Treats event at CHOC (where we donate approximately 600 new Halloween books for patients toddler through young adult); and Isabella, an oncology patient living at Miracle Manor (Miracles for Kids’ subsidized housing for CHOC families) who just received books from ECBC at the Miracle Manor Christmas party (ECBC provides holiday books for all kids living at Miracle Manor, picked out for each child by their personal interests). If you haven’t yet donated and would like to help us continue to fund our book gifting programs for oncology kids stuck in the hospital over the holidays , we would so appreciate your support! Donate at www.runsignup.com/BOOKIT2022. Even the smallest donations will help us to keep all of our programs going!

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Holiday Books for Miracle Manor!

ECBC was so thrilled to deliver holiday book bags to CHOC patients and siblings living at Miracle Manor. This was our second year gifting holiday books to Miracle Manor families, and while we missed not being able to host story time with Santa like we did last year, it is such a treat to be able to provide books that were curated according every recipient’s specific interest. We gifted titles ranging from Mickey House and Baby Shark to baseball, gaming, and fashion — and so much more! A huge thank you to Mary Kay and Claire Viscounty for assembling the beautiful bags as well delivering the books today. And thank you to Janis Leach’s 3rd graders for writing personal holiday notes for every recipient! And of course thank you to all our donors, most of whom donate books on an ongoing basis which allows us to keep on helping hospitalized kids thrive with books and reading.