Why should a destination golf resort stock this book in its family shop or welcome gift?

A golf resort has strong reasons to feature *Once Upon a Golf Swing* in its family shop or welcome gift package. First, it fits the destination-golf experience naturally, a story built around a course and a cast of characters, following Ace, a brand-new golf ball who gets lost on his first swing and has to find his way home. Second, the story carries real emotional weight, wonder, then fear, then hope, which gives a parent something worth reading during a vacation evening, rather than a quick throwaway. Third, the characters, Daisy, Sandman, Splash, Speedy, and Rangey, each bring a genuine strength and a genuine weakness, making the cast memorable enough that a family might ask about it again after the trip ends. Fourth, the game’s language is handled with care, the club swings and the ball flies, never hit, matching the standard a resort holds itself to on the course. Fifth, the range of formats works well for a resort shop, a $29.97 hardcover, $14.97 softcover, and $9.97 audiobook, plus read-along and listen-along editions and an original theme song, "Swing Away," good for the drive home. It is the first book in a series, with a second title already set in Italy, written by F.C. Salas and illustrated by Cristina C. Cortes through Swankeeper Publishing, giving a resort a gift guests will remember past checkout.