NBN Is Just Kidding
by Judith Rosen -- Publishers Weekly, 5/24/2004
After signing its first four children's book publishers last fall, NBN Book Network is getting serious about children's books. "We had so many high-quality children's publishers come to us," said Marianne Bohr, v-p, marketing, "that we said, 'That's it. It's time to concentrate on those children's publishers.' Now we have 15 children's publishers, critical mass to have a separate kids catalogue and a separate kids' section at BEA." There is also a new NBN Kids logo, although there are no plans for adding a separate sales force or marketing team.
Among the new publishers that will join NBN Kids this fall are: Canadian-based Bayeux Arts, which produces six to 10 titles a year and has a U.S. office in New York City; Cubbie Blue, a new children's publisher that is launching with several books by Heather French Henry, Miss USA 2000; GoBo in Wayne, Penn.; Hylas Publishing in Irvington, N.Y., which began publishing last year and concentrates on illustrated nonfiction for children and adults; Denmark-based Scandinavia Publishing House, publishers of The Little Children's Bible; Tanglewood Press, which publishes Katie Mcky's It All Began with a Bean; and Yoyo Books, specializing in educational books for children up to age 10.
