Does a keepsake book work better than a mini golf trophy for camp completion?

A mini trophy marks that a camper finished the week. *Once Upon a Golf Swing* keeps the week alive at home, and a camp weighing the two is really deciding what kind of memory it wants to leave behind. A small trophy is inexpensive, quick to order in bulk, and satisfying to hand a child on the last day. It also tends to sit on a shelf collecting dust once the initial excitement wears off. The 62-page illustrated hardcover about Ace, a golf ball lost on his first swing at Whispering Pines, offers a different kind of ending, one that gets opened again at bedtime or in the car, keeping the camp experience present in a child’s life well past the final day. On cost, trophies purchased in bulk can run close to the book’s $14.97 softcover price, and the book adds far more, a $29.97 hardcover for special recognition, a $9.97 audiobook, and read-along and listen-along editions that a trophy has no equivalent for. Written by F.C. Salas and illustrated by Cristina C. Cortes, with an original theme song, "Swing Away," the book gives a camp something a trophy cannot, a reason for a family to think about golf again next week, not just remember that camp happened. Many camps end up giving both, a small trophy for the moment and a book for what comes after, but for ages three to six, the story is the piece more likely to bring a camper back next summer.