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 Luleå, a coastal town in Swedish Lapland, now living in London.