Ethan & Choco's Book Club

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


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Ethan’s February 2017 Title Talk

img_1268Here’s Ethan’s February 2017 Title Talk (#2), the list of books he hopes will be donated to ECBC in the month of February! Please donate hardcover (for the permanent Lending Library) or paperback (for the Gifting Library for kids in isolation) versions of these books, or any new book, from ECBC’s Amazon Wish List and help us build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital! Books purchased off the wish list will be sent directly to ECBC.

Click here for Ethan’s February Title Talk video.
Click here to purchase books to donate off our Wish List.

 


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Thank you to Mrs. Farquhar’s 1st Grade Class!

books-from-mrs-farquhars-class-vista-verde-jan17We would like to acknowledge a very special book donation that we received in  the month of January. One of the fantastic nurses at the CHOC Outpatient Infusion Center (where Ethan goes to receive his chemo and spinal taps) has a first grade son at Vista Verde Elementary School in Irvine. In December, that boy’s teacher, Mrs. Farquhar, expressed an interest in donating to a charity that involved kids and education, rather than receive holiday gifts from her students. So all of her amazing kiddos personally selected their own favorite books to purchase for ECBC, and they presented their teacher with 53 new books to be donated in honor of their amazing teacher (with special personalized stickers on each book). As you can see in these pictures, Mrs. Farquhar and her adorable students are so proud of their holiday donation! Thank you so much to Mrs. Farquhar, as well as her students and their parents, for choosing to donate to ECBC during the holidays. We are so grateful that you thought of us and can’t wait to share these books with the patients at CHOC! Since these are paperback books, they will go to our Gifting Library for patients in isolation who can’t borrow books from our Lending Library, and we really need more high-quality, high-interest titles such as these. Thank you!! mrs-farquhars-class

We hope that other classes and schools will find ways to donate books to ECBC too — we need the support of Orange County schools to build a hospital library for Orange County’s hospitalized kids!!mrs-farguhars-class-2

 


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Ethan’s Book Flash #1, The Other Boy (M.G. Hennessey)

416rnfpjmel-_sx329_bo1204203200_Here’s Ethan’s first “Book Flash”, his request for a specific title that he wants to make sure is in the library that ECBC is building at CHOC Children’s Hospital! Please check out his video and consider donating this book or any of the other books on the ECBC Wish List on Amazon (link below).  Books purchased from this list will be sent directly to ECBC.  Thank you!

Click HERE for Book Flash #1.

Click HERE to go to ECBC’s Wish List on Amazon.


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Ethan’s January 2017 Title Talk

img_0938Happy New Year! With the new year, Ethan’s 2016 daily Book Look Challenge is complete. It was such a great success, as his 366 “Book Looks” resulted in books in the mail from Amazon daily all year long and around 1400 hardcover books for ECBC’s Lending Library! We are so grateful to everyone who donated books in 2016!

As Ethan explains in the attached video (January Title Talk), we still need a ton of books! In fact, we will always need books coming in to create and sustain a library at CHOC — especially since the unique demands of a hospital-based library mean that there will be significant loss of books and an ongoing need to replace them. So, in 2017, Ethan will be giving a Title Talk at the beginning of each month, where he will share a list of children’s book titles that were not featured as a “book look” last year and that he (or his siblings) want for the library. Like last year, each published Title Talk will include a link to our Amazon Wish List, so that the titles he asks for can be purchased and sent directly to ECBC. Last year, we asked primarily for hardcover books, and we continue to need hardcover book donations to keep expanding our collection of books for the Lending Library. However, we are also now asking for paperback versions of these fantastic titles. We are currently preparing to launch Phase 1 of ECBC at CHOC, which is “Reading Aloud in Every Room”. The plan is to use our high-quality books from the Lending Library to read to the patients, but in order to include the kids in isolation (who are contagious and not allowed to borrow books), we need to create a Gifting Library of paperback books that can be read aloud and then gifted. So please think about donating both hardcover and paperback books, as we very much need them both!

Thank you so much for your continued support!

Click here for Ethan’s January Title Talk video.
Click here to purchase books to donate off our Wish List.

 


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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #366

61glnlshkjl-_sy451_bo1204203200_Mission Complete! Here’s Ethan’s last Book Look of his 2016 Daily Book Look Challenge — #366! The title of today’s book is A Poem for Peterthe Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day (by Andrea Davis Pinkney). If you’re interested in donating this amazing book or other books to help ECBC 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.

We are so deeply grateful for our December book donors (names mentioned in the video) as well as for everyone who watched Ethan’s videos and donated books this year. Ethan was hoping to receive an average of one book per day of the year, and we ended up with 1400 new hardcover books from Amazon customers for our Lending Library! What a completely awesome start we have for launching Phase 1 of ECBC in 2017!

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Thank you so much Alysha Stout for donating so many books on behalf of your mother-in-law Merry for Christmas this year — what a wonderful gift and we are so grateful!

Click here for Book Look #366 video.
Click here to purchase books to donate off our Wish List.

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Celebrating the end of 2016 / end of Daily Book Look Challenge!

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The recording scene for 366 straight days!


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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #365

61kq0npdczl-_sx328_bo1204203200_-1Here’s Ethan’s Book Look #365The Secret Keepers (by Trenton Lee 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 #365 video.
Click here to purchase books to donate off our Wish List.


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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #364

51pyg3cog8l-_sx342_bo1204203200_Here’s Ethan’s Book Look #364The Wild Robot (by Peter Brown). 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 #364 video.
Click here to purchase books to donate off our Wish List.


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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #363

imgres-2Here’s Ethan’s Book Look #363, the Keeper of the Lost Cities series (by Shannon Messenger). Ethan and his sister Maddy also had the opportunity to conduct a special phone interview with the author, and their interview is attached to the book look video. The interview was supposed to be via Skype, but the internet happened to be down in our neighborhood yesterday, so we had to settle for audio. Nevertheless, the kids had a blast chatting with Ms. Messenger — they loved hearing her responses to their questions and they thought she was so cool!! Thank you Shannon Messenger for spending time with Ethan and Maddy; we all cant wait for Book #6 to come out!

If you’re interested in donating this amazing series, or other books to help us build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, please 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 #363 video.
Click here to purchase books to donate off our Wish List.


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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #362

51rqvgxmqlHere’s Ethan’s Book Look #362A Voyage in the Clouds: the (Mostly) True Story of the First International Flight by Balloon in 1785 (by Matthew Olshan). 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 #362 video.
Click here to purchase books to donate off our Wish List.


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Ethan’s Daily Book #361

516fg3nhhal-_sy376_bo1204203200_Here’s Ethan’s Book Look #361Ada’s Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World’s First Computer Programmer (by Fiona Robinson). 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 #361 video.
Click here to purchase books to donate off our Wish List.