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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Merry Christmas from ECBC!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! ECBC has enjoyed celebrating the holidays with CHOC patients by providing holiday-themed literary joy throughout the month. For the last few weeks, we have been reading aloud wonderful Christmas and other December holiday literature to patients at bedside through our bedside reading program. We have also gifted new holiday books to kids who are inpatient and stuck in isolation via our mobile gifting cart. We delivered a substantial number of holiday book to the outpatient side of the hospital — the Outpatient Infusion Center and the Oncology Clinic — more than 500 new titles. We provided storytime at Miracle Manor’s Christmas party (Miracle Manor is Miracles for Kids’ subsidized housing for families of CHOC patients). And, we delivered holiday cards to CHOC patients that were handwritten by local elementary and high school students. In total, we gave away approximately 800 books this month that hopefully resulted in additional quality time with excellent Christmas/Hanukkah/Diwali/Kwanzaa literature!

THANK YOU to everyone who donated books this month and helped to make this all possible. If you would like to make an end-of-year gift to ECBC to help fund our December book gifting, please click on the link below. Note that there is also an option to commit to a recurring monthly donation, which will help to fund our ongoing monthly book gifting (which is about 500 books/month — approximately $5000 in cost per month). All donations are tax deductible (ECBC Is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, EIN 83-2934289).

Thank you for helping Orange County’s hospitalized kids to thrive through the holidays with high-quality books and reading!