Dr. Meredith L. Rowe is Professor of Early Learning and Development at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. Her previous titles include Learning Through Language: Towards An Educationally Informed Theory Of Language Learning and Literacy And Mothering: How Women's Schooling Changes The Lives Of The World's Children. Monika Forsberg is a freelance illustrator, born and raised in Lulea, a coastal town in Swedish Lapland, now living in London. Her recent clients include: Anthropologie, NY Review, Unicef, John Lewis, Liberty London, and the United Nations.