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Arcadia Publishing is launching Arcadia Children's Books, a publishing program for children focused on its specialty of hyper-local titles. The imprint will be headed by former DK editorial director Nancy Ellwood, who has more than 20 years of experience in children's publishing, particularly in children's nonfiction.
Arcadia president and CEO David Steinberger commented: "Retailers everywhere are telling us that their customers are hungry for local content, and we keep getting asked to add a hyper-local program for kids. We're listening to our customers, and we couldn't be more pleased to have Nancy Ellwood, such a proven and talented children's publishing leader, joining the Arcadia team."
Ellwood added: "It's an honor to apply my years of experience to building a new children's program for Arcadia, America's leading publisher of books of local interest. We are going to tap into kids' natural compassion, curiosity and openness, and create books that focus on here, now, home and community."
Publisher of the Images of America series, Arcadia has a catalogue of almost 15,000 titles and a frontlist of 500 new titles annually. While Arcadia has published a few children's titles in the past, this marks its first major step into publishing books for children.