Dr. Meredith L. Roew is professor of early learning and development at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. Her previous titles include Learning Through Language: Toward an Educationally Informed Theory of Language Learning and Literacy and Mothering: How Women’s Schooling Changes the Lives of the World’s Children. Monika Forsbergis a freelance illustrator, born and raised in Luleå, a coastal town in Swedish Lapland, now living in London.