Bella Sara™ Shines Among Creative Child Awards
SEATTLE — (June 15, 2009) Hidden City Games, Inc. is proud to announce that Creative Child magazine has awarded Bella Sara™ Miniatures with the 2009 Toy of the Year Award in the kids figurine toys category. Bella Sara™ Treasures and Royalty series also each won the 2009 Preferred Choice Award from Creative Child Magazine.
Each year, Creative Child Magazine hires 100 moms and educators to review products submitted for the awards. All award selections are published on their
website, as well as in their holiday issue each November.
Bella Sara™ Miniatures allows you to fit the beautiful horses of Bella Sara in the palm of your hand. With 20 different magical horses to collect and 20 random bonus codes to be activated for online prizes, Bella Sara™ Miniatures captivates its audience in both the online and offline worlds. Bella Sara™ Treasures boasts the first “fun packs,” Card Packs that include tattoos, stickers, and games. Bella Sara™ Royalty includes the first Bella Sara Tickets, which activate a selection of horses, horseshoes, prizes, and cottage rooms online. These Tickets are the first step toward Bella Sara Adventures, which will release this fall.
Find Bella Sara™ Miniatures, Treasures, Royalty, and other great gifts both in retail locations and
online.
About Bella Sara™:
Bella Sara™ is a magical world of horses and other characters for children to expand their imaginations. Originally launched in Denmark by Gitte Odder Braendgaard, Bella Sara inspires pro-social dialogue and inspirational thought with positive messages. After its introduction to the U.S. in 2007 by Hidden City Games, Bella Sara quickly expanded globally into an international children’s entertainment property. Since its introduction, Bella Sara has expanded its product lines from trading cards and a virtual world (at BellaSara.com) to miniature velvety horses, books, video games, toys, arts and crafts and more in the North America market. International product lines also include apparel, back-to-school items, toys, books, video games and more. Bella Sara products come with positive messaging and a secret code that expands a child’s experience with a virtual online world. By entering secret codes at BellaSara.com, children can enhance their online and offline experiences with adventures, casual games and activities, while caring for their magical horses.
About Hidden City Games:
Hidden City Games, Inc., a venture-backed game publisher headquartered in Seattle, develops and markets games to interactively engage players and collectors of all ages. The company is best known as the exclusive licensor of Bella Sara for girls ages 5 and up. The inspirational, horse-themed trading cards and magical online world launched nationwide in the United States in March of 2007. Bella Sara, the most successful trading card product ever developed for girls, links to a safe, fun-filled virtual world for kids at www.bellasara.com. Founder and CEO Peter D. Adkison formerly founded Wizards of the Coast, Inc., which created the world’s first trading card game, Magic: The Gathering, and introduced the Pokémon trading card phenomenon to North America.
