Visiting Day by Jacqueline Woodson
In this moving picture book from a multi-award winning author, a young girl and her grandmother prepare for a very special day—the one day a month they get to visit the girl’s father in prison. “Only on visiting day is there chicken frying in the kitchen at 6 a.m, and Grandma in her Sunday dress, humming soft and low.” As the little girl and her grandmother get ready, her father, who adores her, is getting ready, too, and readers get to join the community of families who make the trip together, and witness the triumphant reunion between father and child, all gently told in Woodson’s trademark lyrical style, with evocative illustrations by James Ransome.