My 1st time childrens story book draft is about ready for submission to be printed. I'm not using the services of a literary agent. I will be making arrangements for an indepedant publisher to print my book. I will be acting as my own agent and distributor with in my own state. My book includes additional "tie-ins" in the form of small activity kits. Each kit will have 6-10 seperate items to complete the activites 3 or 4 times over as desired. My problem is ...I am now ready to contact suppliers who can meet my requirements but I don't know where to start looking. I need names, addresses and web sites of such manufactures and suppliers who can do this type work. My book is about arts and crafts for preschoolers and includes 4-6 small prepackaged kits all contained (including my book) in a clear plastic snap open box for parents to help their child in a fun an enjoyable activity. While pre-packaging is not new my story book is. Your help is appreciated.

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I assume you are planning to self-publish? Publishers won't even look at you without multiple advanced degrees and possibly even an established practice in child development. You need 2 things: a book publisher and a factory to make your activity kit. Book publisher is easy if you have funding. Just google "vanity press" and you will find many willing to print your book with a nice cover. For your activity kit, are all the components made of the same material? For instance, if everything is plastic, you will want to look up "plastic fabricators" in your yellow pages or on google. You'll save a lot of money if you let them make the stuff but you assemble the packages yourself. Or, hire a sheltered workshop to do it for you. I have friends with M-R who would be delighted to do that kind of work, and you get a serious tax write-off. When you say pre-packaging is not new, do you mean these? http://www.klutz.com/catalog/category/1012 .