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The Night Before Summer Camp - by Natasha Wing (Paperback)

The Night Before Summer Camp - by  Natasha Wing (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this 12th title of Wing's bestselling Night Before series, a little boy who is going to summer camp for the first time gets a bad case of nervous butterflies, but an unlikely friend appears and reassures him in this sweet story told in verse to the meter of Clement Moore's Christmas classic. Full color.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The first day of summer camp is almost here, and one little camper doesn't know what to expect. For a while everything is hunkydory . . . until rest time rolls around and he gets a bad case of nervous butterflies. But an unlikely friend appears out of the crowd and reassures him that the best cure for the summertime blues is tons of summertime fun! A sweetly reassuring story, once again told in verse to the meter of Clement Moore's classic.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Natasha Wing was born in Milford, Connecticut in 1960. At the age of 20 she moved to Arizona where she finished college at Arizona State University in 1982 with a B.S. in Advertising. In 1988 she married Daniel Wing and moved to Northern California where she worked in advertising for a number of years. <p>It wasn't until 1991 that she decided to write children's books. Luckily she sold her first book, <b>Hippity Hop, Frog on Top</b>, within 6 months and has been writing children's books and articles ever since. Her second book, <b>Jalapeno Bagels</b>, came out in June 1996 with Atheneum Books. <b>The Night Before Easter</b>, was published with Putnam All Aboard Books. She has also been published in <i>Humpty Dumpty's Magazine</i>, <i>Girls' Life</i>, and <i>Hopscotch for Girls</i>, and has two recipes in <i>Writers in the Kitchen</i>.</p><p><b>Birthday: </b> February 7th<b><b>Pets: </b> Siberian husky, Sabaka, and cat, Jemima<b><b>Professional: </b> Member of Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators<b><b>Favorite Children's Books: </b> <b>Polar Express, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Cat in the Hat, The Golden Compass<b>Favorite Season: </b> Fall<b><b>Favorite Tree: </b> Maple<b><b>Favorite Color: </b> Cranberry red<b><b>Favorite Cookie: </b> Oatmeal Raisin with Vanilla Chips<b><b>Reason for writing</b> The Night Before Easter<b> </b> I wrote <b>The Night Before Easter</b> for parents to read at bedtime so children could go to sleep with sweet dreams of jelly beans dancing in their heads.</b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></p><p> </p>

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