How does a golf storybook serve a golf camp or academy family shopping for the holidays?

A golf camp or academy family shopping for the holidays is served by *Once Upon a Golf Swing*, a 62-page illustrated storybook built for the same age group many camps welcome into their earliest clinics, ages 3 to 6. Camps and academies teach through repetition and encouragement, and this book uses story the same way, showing a young golf ball, Ace, work through fear and a difficult first swing at a course called Whispering Pines before finding friends: Daisy, Sandman, Splash, Speedy, and Rangey, each written with a real strength and a real weakness. Written by F.C. Salas and illustrated by Cristina C. Cortes, published by Swankeeper Publishing LLC, the book comes as a first-edition hardcover for $29.97, a softcover for $14.97, an audiobook for $9.97, and in read-along and listen-along formats set to an original song, "Swing Away." An instructor or camp director can suggest this book to families as something to read before a child’s first day of clinic, giving them a story that softens the nerves of trying something new. It is the first book in a series, with a second story already set in Italy, so a camp family that enjoys reading this book together has a natural reason to return the following season, both to the story and to the course.