Kim Keller started her career as a manager and buyer of children s titles for an independent bookstore. Desiring to learn the publishing side, she was hired by Houghton Mifflin in Boston, working alongside some of the trade s finest children s book editors and rising to the role of Managing Editor. She has since worked for Chronicle Books and Ten Speed/Tricycle Press, as well as other small presses on a freelance basis. Her authors have garnered some of the industry s top literary honors, including the Robert F. Sibert Medal for Best Nonfiction Book for Children. Children s books remain Kim s