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Ethan Choco039s 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 lifealtering conditions can help promote cognitive health and social connections that are part of thriving through treatment and beyond April 5 2025 by aliposnerLeave a comment ReStocking ECBCs New Diagnosis Book Bags This past week ECBC delivered 24 of our Read Think Thrive Bags to CHOC Outpatient Oncology at the Hyundai Cancer Institute. These are ECBCs book bags that go to patients just after they are diagnosed with cancer valued at 150 per bag they are curated by agegender and filled with ten new highquality books book crafting supplies and other literacy support materials e. g. reading light bookmark Care Card and creative book response from a kid in the community encouraging the patient to read and create their own literary response.