Kate Klimo
VP & Publisher, Random House/Golden Books for Young Readers
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When she was 26, Kate Klimo was named editor-in-chief of Platt & Munk, the company renowned for publishing The Little Engine that Could, and was serving in that capacity when her company was swallowed whole by Grosset & Dunlap, the publisher of Nancy Drew, which was, in turn, almost immediately ingested by Putnam, the publisher of Jan Brett.

Kate was then invited by Dutton (the publisher of Winnie the Pooh), to start a mass market imprint for them. She started Gingerbread House, which was subsequently purchased by Anderson News. In 1980, she went to Simon & Schuster, then virtually without a children's imprint, and so she founded Little Simon.

In 1984, she was invited to join the fun at Random House, the publisher of Dr. Seuss, where she has, quite understandably, remained ever since, first, as editor-at-large, then as editor-in-chief, and eventually as Vice President and Publisher of the Random House/Golden Books Young Readers Group.