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KELLY BARRALES-SAYLOR

Editorial Director, Sourcebooks eXplore (Nonfiction)
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WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR
I'm looking for new approaches to nonfiction topics that are entertaining, educational, and FUN for kids of all ages. I'm particularly interested in commercial nonfiction for babies and preschoolers. Also looking for fresh takes on emotional learning. I appreciate the weird, misfit kinds of projects—if it doesn't seem to fit anywhere, it's probably for me. 
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​RIGHT NOW DON'T SEND ME... Straightforward nonfiction​
HOW I GOT INTO BOOKS: I loved books so much as a kid that I got special permission from my school principal to enter the building early so I could help shelve books in the library. Years later, I thought my love of books meant I had to teach, so I went to college to be a high school English teacher. When I was about 90% done with my teaching degree, and just before I started student teaching (but not before I created lesson plans using Grandmaster Flash lyrics), I heard about an internship at an indie publishing company in Naperville called Sourcebooks. Oh. I can make books? And I can still live in Chicagoland? Yes, let’s do that.
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JUST A FEW OF THE BOOKS AND AUTHORS I'VE ACQUIRED AND EDITED IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS: Quantum Physics for Babies by Chris Ferrie, P Is for Pterodactyl by Raj Haldar and Chris Carpenter, The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs by America’s Test Kitchen Kids, Women Who Dared by Linda Skeers, and The Very Very Very Long Dog by Julia Patton
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SOME FAVORITE BOOKS AND AUTHORS I DIDN'T PUBLISH... Leo: A Ghost Story, Please Mr. Panda, anything by Gyo Fujikawa or P.D. Eastman, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Color Purple, My Life in France, The Monster at the End of This Book, The Ernie and Bert Book, and the first 40 or so Nancy Drew Files mysteries from the 80s with the romance-esque covers

​I LOVE MY JOB BECAUSE... There are so many reasons but the most important to me is the hope that the books we make change children’s lives in some positive way

​I KEEP MY READING PILE... This would be more interesting if the question were “where isn’t your reading pile?” It’s everywhere…except the bathroom. I have a strict rule about that.

​BOOKSTORES YOU SHOULD VISIT BEFORE YOU DIE... The Anderson’s location in Downers Grove is one of my all-time favorites for nostalgic reasons.  

​WHEN I'M NOT READING, I'LL BE... Cooking, gardening, quilting, watching Bears games, listening to Howard Stern, singing loudly in my car, attending a concert or musical, or doing parent-y things with my husband, son, and dogs.​

AGENTS CAN CONTACT ME AT kelly.barrales-saylor@sourcebooks.com, direct line 630-961-3900 ext. 350

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