Holiday Music From the Tom Arma Collection Soothes Children During the Holidays

Christmas Favorites New Holiday CD Features Instrumental Holiday Favorites Available From Madacy Kids and Famed Photographer

Toronto, Ontario September 12, 2004 -- The holidays can be a hectic time and now Madacy Kids presents a new CD that brings the joy of the holidays to little ones in gentle soothing instrumentals of classic Christmas songs. Perfect for baby (and parents!) needing some quiet time, Christmas Favorites, from the Tom Arma music collection, will soothe young listeners and perhaps lull them to sleep with familiar tunes that parents can also hum along.

Introduce baby to his or her first Christmas with classics like Silent Night, Little Drummer Boy, and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, while toddlers and preschoolers may recognize holiday favorites like Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and Jingle Bells, just some of the seasonal tunes included on this 40-minute CD collection of 20 songs.

Christmas Favorites is in stores now at a suggested retail price of $7.98. It is recommended for ages newborn and up and includes a bonus growth chart and downloadable screensaver for your PC.

Christmas Favorites is one of the four English language Tom Arma CDs launched this July by Madacy Kids, as part of a new licensing agreement through CopCorp Licensing for Madacy Kids to produce and market music products from the fame photographer. Other titles in the initial Tom Arma collection are Playtime Songs, Animal Songs, and Heavenly Lullabies. Madacy Kids also releases Tom Arma CDs in Spanish: Primeras Canciones, Mis Animalitos, Colors, Formas & Numeros and Pequena Navidad.

About Tom Arma
Tom Arma began his photographic career as the youngest staff photographer at the New York Daily News, where his diverse assignments garnered him hundreds of journalism awards. He later requested reassignment to the papers magazine section, where he photographed many famous stars and luminaries. Eventually leaving journalism to open his own studio and concentrate on magazine and advertising work, he shot successful campaigns for Fortune 500 companies as well as covers for numerous prestigious publications. He began working with babies in 1972 and his work photographing costumes children graced the covers of magazines throughout the 80s. His costumed cuties have been featured in magazines, are the subjects of many books and can be seen on a wide variety of consumer products including Halloween costumes, puzzles, greeting cards and diapers. For more information about Tom Arma, please visit www.tomarma.com .

About CopCor Licensing
CopCorp Licensing, global licensing agent for Tom Arma Studio, specializes in the development of brand and entertainment based licensing opportunities for presentation and packaging to the manufacturer and retailer communities. As a multi-functional sales and marketing firm, CopCorp Licensing offers both licensors and licensees a bridge to the retail community.

About Madacy Kids
Madacy Kids and Madacy Latino are divisions of Madacy Entertainment Group, Limited, a full-service entertainment company headquartered in Montreal which licenses, markets and distributes music, video, DVD and customized corporate entertainment premiums through its offices throughout North America, Europe and Latin America. For product information please visit www.madacy.com, e-mail e-mail protected from spam bots (English) or e-mail protected from spam bots (Spanish), or call toll free 1-888-2MADACY.

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