Ellen Krieger, associate publisher of Simon & Schuster Children’s imprint Aladdin, has announced her retirement at the end of this month. Krieger has been with the company for fifteen years, and oversaw the merger of Pocket’s middle grade and teen imprints into the Aladdin and Pulse imprints and launched Aladdin Mix. She said “It’s hard to imagine a more satisfying last chapter of my publishing career than my fifteen years at Simon & Schuster, shepherding Aladdin… through a number of exciting incarnations. I’m not sure what the next chapter will be; right now, I’m looking forward to not setting an alarm, and organizing my photographs, recipes, and knitting patterns.”