About the Author

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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 Learningand 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, who now lives in London. Her recent clients include: Anthropologie, New York Review of Books, Unicef, John Lewis, Liberty London, and the United Nations.