Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #283, Uncle Jed’s Barbershop (by Margaree Mitchell). If you’re interested in donating books and helping to build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can click here to access ECBC’s Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.
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Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #282, Wildwood Chronicles (by Colin Meloy). If you’re interested in donating books and helping to build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can click here to access ECBC’s Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.
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Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #281, Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille (by Jen Bryant). If you’re interested in donating books and helping to build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can click here to access ECBC’s Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.
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Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #280, Bark George (by Jules Feiffer). If you’re interested in donating books and helping to build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can click here to access ECBC’s Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.
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Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #279, The “Who Was…?” series. If you’re interested in donating books and helping to build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can click here to access ECBC’s Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.
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Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #278, Dragons Love Tacos (by Adam Rubin). If you’re interested in donating books and helping to build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can click here to access ECBC’s Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.
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Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #277, Wonderfall (by Michael Hall). If you’re interested in donating books and helping to build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can click here to access ECBC’s Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.
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Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #275, Dear Dragon (Josh Funk).
If you’re interested in donating books and helping to build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can click here to access ECBC’s Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.
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Thank you Kris Allison and Burnham Beneffits!!!!
Thank you so much to everyone who donated books in the month of September! A HUGE thank you to Kris Allison and Burnham Benefits for the 60 hardcover book titles that you donated– wow, that gave the ECBC Lending Library a fantastic boost (especially of board books, which we really still need a ton of)! Thank you also to the Schulman Family and Congregation B’Nai Israel Preschool for your super generous donations this month. And a great big thank you to everyone who donated books to ECBC at the OC Children’s Book Festival last weekend — we received so many great books from festival-goers and local authors! Thank you author Lisa Day for donating so many of your own books — they are paperback books so they will go to our Gifting Library, and a bunch of kids in isolation will get to receive them! And thank you to a few of the girls from Girl Scout Troop #3115 for showing up at the Festival and helping to collect so many book donations that day!
Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #274, The Dot (Peter Reynolds). 
If you’re interested in donating books and helping to build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can click here to access ECBC’s Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.
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Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #273, Parrots Over Puerto Rico (Susan Roth and Cindy Trumbore).
If you’re interested in donating books and helping to build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can click here to access ECBC’s Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.
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Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #272, Far From Fair (Alana Arnold).
If you’re interested in donating books and helping to build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can click here to access ECBC’s Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.
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Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #271, Bear Snores On (Karma Wilson).
If you’re interested in donating books and helping to build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can click here to access ECBC’s Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.
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We had such a great time at the Orange County Book Festival on Sunday! It was ECBC’s first time being at a public event (beyond our elementary school), and it was amazing to share what we are doing with other book-lovers and our broader Orange County community. We sold some merchandise and received some new book and cash donations, but more importantly we connected with a lot of people and spread awareness about our efforts to bring books to hospitalized kids! Ethan met numerous wonderful local authors who donated their own books, many of whom also expressed interest in being guest author readers at CHOC when we get things going there. Ethan had a blast presenting at the Storyteller’s Stage, where he shared his story and founding of ECBC with a captive audience of young readers and parents and then read aloud one of his favorite picture books. No shyness for this ambassador of reading — his only complaint was that he wanted a bigger stage and a bigger audience! And we were so excited to have a few girls from Girl Scout troop #3115 — who just joined forces with ECBC to help us collect books and other supplies for our new Read+Think+Thrive boxes (reading kits for kids battling cancer who can’t benefit from the hospital library because they are in isolation at CHOC or are at another hospital where they have limited access to books — more on this in another post!). Thank you, girls, for working so hard and collecting over 70 books for the reading kits! And, I think the best part of it all was watching Ethan sit front and center at the booth, proudly telling his story and sharing his cause to everyone who visited. I have no idea how he was able to do this tirelessly for 7 hours in the heat — a true sign of his tremendous commitment to this!
Ethan sharing his story with a Festival-goer!
Ethan was thrilled when CHOCO himself came by the booth!
Presenting on the Storyteller’s Stage
We thank Barry Ackerman (co-founder of the Book Festival) for helping get ECBC involved in this great event. And thank you also to Steve Murow for funding the booth space –we are so grateful for both of your support. Thank you also to Once Upon a Storybook for your ongoing support and collection of books for us through your fantastic customers. And of course thank you to our family and friends who came out in the heat to support us!!
Ethan with a few girls from Troop 3115
Ethan and Captain Tall Tale — how fun would it be to have him come read to kids at CHOC?!
Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #270, Could You Hug a Cactus (Phillip Van Wagoner).
If you’re interested in donating books and helping to build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can click here to access ECBC’s Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.
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Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #269, The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis).
If you’re interested in donating books and helping to build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can click here to access ECBC’s Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.
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Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #268, No Monkeys, No Chocolate (Melissa Stewart).
If you’re interested in donating books and helping to build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can click here to access ECBC’s Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.
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Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #267, Water is Water (by Miranda Paul).
If you’re interested in donating books and helping to build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can click here to access ECBC’s Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.
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Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #266, Ghosts (by Reina Telgemeier).
If you’re interested in donating books and helping to build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can click here to access ECBC’s Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.
Click here for Book Look #266 video.
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Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #265, Feathers: Not Just for Flying (by Melissa Stewart).
If you’re interested in donating books and helping to build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can click here to access ECBC’s Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.
Click here for Book Look #265 video.
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Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #264, Sea of Dreams (by Dennis Nolan).
If you’re interested in donating books and helping to build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can click here to access ECBC’s Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.
Click here for Book Look #264 video.
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