"Lana Jordan smiles a lot! You can feel it in her communications, you can hear it in her voice,
and you can see it in her work. Lana truly loves what she does, and it shows!" — Tammy Harrison,
The Queen of Pizzazz

"Lana Jordan does a wonderful job of entertaining and educating at the same time." — Dana Chamberlain, ClassicBooks.com
 

Lana Jordan has loved writing ever since she was old enough to pick up a pencil. When she was in elementary school, she had a language arts teacher who gave the class a weekly writing assignment and awarded a lemon drop to the student who wrote the best story. Lana got lots of lemon drops.

She went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a minor in journalism from Texas Tech University. Lana has been writing, editing, and publishing ever since. She helps other writers get published through Jorlan Publishing.
 

From the Author:

I started reading to my children as babies. But by about age four, they just weren't interested in the typical picture book anymore. And after all the pomp and ceremony involved in getting ready to read together, we didn't want to pack it all up again in five minutes or less. We wanted to stay awhile. We wanted longer bedtime stories. I wrote The Sleepytime Ponies Trick a Trickster with that in mind.

I recently heard a representative from a national bookstore chain make the comment that children ages five and older are the toughest book customers. She said they love books until about the time they start school, and then they lose interest. Well, that doesn't surprise me very much. What books are they supposed to enjoy when they're too old for traditional picture books and too young for chapter books?

The Sleepytime Ponies Trick a Trickster is intended to help bridge that gap. It's for families like ours who enjoy reading together and want to spend more than 2 or 3 minutes on a bedtime story. It's both entertaining and educational. And it appeals to both children and adults. That's important. This story is meant to be read aloud and enjoyed together because I strongly believe in the magic of parents reading to their children and because I want the parents to have fun, too. When it comes right down to it, we would love to fly out the window with the Sleepytime Ponies just as much as our children...maybe even more!