Sally M. Kim

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Sally is looking to represent a wide range of children’s book authors, illustrators, and author-illustrators. She is drawn to stories with a distinct voice, unexpected wit, aggressive pacing, punchy and/or emotionally resonant endings. When it comes to illustration, she gravitates to versatile artists using traditional mediums and those with a unique take on color, texture, perspective, and unexpected details.

Please send Sally fiction and non-fiction submissions in the following categories: picture books, chapter books, and middle grade. Across all categories, Sally is especially eager to see authentic explorations of underrepresented cultures, relationships, and identities.

Sally can never get enough of

• magic, dragons, and above all, cats

• illustrators who play with color, perspective, and movement

• a richly layered sister story

• unreliable narrators

• surprise endings

Sally would be excited to dive into

• a fresh take on universal themes, especially those told from an underrepresented POV

• effervescent, poignant, and/or witty voices

• cozy, warm reads

• a well executed jump scare

• kids feeling big feelings

Prove her wrong, but Sally generally steers clear of

• rhyme

• time travel

• books that primarily teach a lesson

• books that are intended from the outset to also be for adults

• books in second person / breaking the fourth wall

Sally would be thrilled to find the next generation's...

• Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal

• The Boring Book by Shinsuke Yoshitake

• Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J. Sobol

• Watership Down by  by Richard Adams 

• Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments by Ali Almossawi and Alejandro Giraldo

Prior to joining Andrea Brown Literary Agency, Sally spent more than fifteen years in children’s book marketing and publicity at a variety of publishers including Macmillan, Penguin, and Chronicle Books. More recently, she has worked as an independent consultant for global children’s book publishers and literacy-related non-profits. Sally lives in San Francisco, California, where she spends most of her free time pet sitting.