Anneke Forzani is the President and Founder of Language Lizard (www.languagelizard.com), which provides multicultural resources in over 50 languages to schools, libraries, and literacy organizations. She has presented workshops about using multicultural resources in diverse classrooms at educational conferences. She also writes about multicultural issues online and manages the blog Supporting Multicultural Classrooms & Bilingual Families at blog.languagelizard.com. Anneke speaks Dutch, French, and Japanese, and is the author of Building Bridges with Bilingual Books and Multicultural Resources. Dmitry Fedorov is a professional artist and illustrator living in the Ukraine. He creates both digital concept art as well as illustrations using traditional instruments such as pencils, markers, soft pastel, charcoal, watercolor and oil paint.