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In her new vibrant and spirited picture book, artist Laura James pays homage to her childhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., Caribbean immigrants, and to her mother, a homemaker who wore many hats. Often relegated to the background, nannies and domestic workers are seldom the topic of children's stories, yet James achieves at once a deeply personal and universal story. James will speak about how she came to write this book and what it means to tell a children's story with big topics including economy, religion, immigration, and love.