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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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #127

51rWSjh9+ZL._SY413_BO1,204,203,200_Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #127, Whose Butt (by Stan Tekiela). If you’re interested in donating and helping build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can go to our Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.

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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #125

51oGobI6z6L._SX451_BO1,204,203,200_Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #125, Moonshot (by Brian Floca). If you’re interested in donating and helping build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can go to our Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.

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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #113

41Z2Osn6FgL._BO1,204,203,200_Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #113, The Wump World (by Bill Peet). If you’re interested in donating and helping build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can go to ourWish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.

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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #109

61oWRl-5uhL._SX370_BO1,204,203,200_Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #109The Paper Princess books (by Elisa Kleven). If you’re interested in donating and helping build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can go to ourWish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.

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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #108

61DWEEX765L._SX379_BO1,204,203,200_Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #108Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children (by Jan Pinborough). If you’re interested in donating and helping build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can go to ourWish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.

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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #107

61fwS8uuZeL._SX398_BO1,204,203,200_Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #107The Mysterious Tadpole (by Steven Kellogg). If you’re interested in donating and helping build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can go to ourWish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.

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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #106

41qmKaQM+IL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #106Freckle Juice, by Judy Blume). If you’re interested in donating and helping build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can go to ourWish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.

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Once Upon a Storybook Comes to Arroyo

Book table with Miss Susie, Arroyo Bingo NightTonight our local bookstore owner Susie Alexander teamed up with Ethan to provide a book table at Arroyo Elementary School’s Family Bingo Night. In one hour, Ethan & Choco’s Book Club (ECBC) received quite a few book donations — thank you Arroyo families who donated! And Ethan was so proud to be in “the public” with ECBC for the first time, collecting books and sporting our new ECBC t-shirts. We are so excited to be partnering with Susie and Once Upon a Storybook! Thank you Susie!

If you want to support ECBC as well as this fantastic bookstore, you can visit the store and purchase books to go in the ECBC collection basket. While you’re at it, if you have a child with you, Miss Susie is sure to be able to match your kid up with that “‘perfect book”!


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51YVsK9iS6L._SX414_BO1,204,203,200_Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #104Peppe the Lamplighter, by Elisa Bartone). If you’re interested in donating and helping build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can go to ourWish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.

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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #100

Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #100Twenty-One Elephants and Still Standingby April Prince. If you’re interested in donating and helping build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can go to ourWish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.

51FCBNT24EL._SX380_BO1,204,203,200_-1 Click here for Book Look #100 video.
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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #99

51AdZgwUAOL._SX413_BO1,204,203,200_Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #99Dr. De Sotoby William Steig. If you’re interested in donating and helping build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can go to ourWish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.

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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #98

51eD3PpCd3L._SX407_BO1,204,203,200_Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #98Learning to Ski with Mr. Mageeby Chris Van Dusen. If you’re interested in donating and helping build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can go to our Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.

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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #97

51xx2RFdt6L._SX332_BO1,204,203,200_Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #97From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,by E.L. Konigsburg. If you’re interested in donating and helping build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can go to our Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.

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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #96

51XxPO9KFRL._SX399_BO1,204,203,200_-2Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #96The Gruffalo, by Julia Donaldson. If you’re interested in donating and helping build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can go to our Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.

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Ethan’s Book Look #95

41Z2KyGc1hL._SX353_BO1,204,203,200_Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #95Ideas Are All Around, by Philip Stead. If you’re interested in donating and helping build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can go to our Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.

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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #94

51mi0weo+uL._SX404_BO1,204,203,200_Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #94The Cow Who Climbed a Tree, by Gemma Merino. If you’re interested in donating and helping build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can go to our Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.

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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #93

41sSM7s4WTL._AA160_Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #93Spoon, by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. If you’re interested in donating and helping build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can go to our Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.

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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #92

51fVTiz5XrL._SX403_BO1,204,203,200_Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #92The Sandwich Swap, by Queen Rania of Jordan Al Abdullah and Kelly DiPucchio (and illustrator Tricia Tusa). If you’re interested in donating and helping build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can go to our Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.

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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #91

41S7i227+zL._SX338_BO1,204,203,200_Thank you to all of our book donors for the month of March! We still need many more books to get phase 1 off the ground and going in the hospital, so please consider donating a book if you haven’t already. Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #91, The Astounding Broccoli Boy, by Frank Cottrell Boyce. If you’re interested in donating and helping build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can go to our Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.

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Ethan’s Daily Book Look #90

61g2Q7QD9fL._SX397_BO1,204,203,200_Here’s Ethan’s Daily Book Look #90, Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors?: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell (by Tanya Lee Stone and Marjorie Priceman). If you’re interested in donating and helping build a library at CHOC Children’s Hospital, you can go to our Wish List on Amazon.com. Items purchased from this list will be sent directly to Ethan & Choco’s Book Club.

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Click here to purchase books to donate off our Wish List.

Thank you so much for your support!