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Visiting Day

By Jacqueline Woodson
Illustrated by James Ransome

By Jacqueline Woodson
Illustrated by James Ransome

By Jacqueline Woodson
Illustrated by James Ransome
Read by Jacqueline Woodson

By Jacqueline Woodson
Illustrated by James Ransome
Read by Jacqueline Woodson

By Jacqueline Woodson
Read by Jacqueline Woodson

By Jacqueline Woodson
Read by Jacqueline Woodson

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    About Visiting Day

    In this moving picture book from multi-award winning author Jacqueline Woodson, 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, as well as the triumphant reunion between father and child, all told in Woodson’s trademark lyrical style, and beautifully illusrtrated by James Ransome.

    About Visiting Day

    In this moving picture book from multi-award winning author Jacqueline Woodson, 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, as well as the triumphant reunion between father and child, all told in Woodson’s trademark lyrical style, and beautifully illusrtrated by James Ransome.

    About Visiting Day

    In this moving picture book from multi-award winning author Jacqueline Woodson, 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, as well as the triumphant reunion between father and child, all told in Woodson’s trademark lyrical style, and beautifully illusrtrated by James Ransome.

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    About Jacqueline Woodson

    Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award. She was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and in 2015,… More about Jacqueline Woodson

    About Jacqueline Woodson

    Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award. She was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and in 2015,… More about Jacqueline Woodson

    About Jacqueline Woodson

    Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award. She was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and in 2015,… More about Jacqueline Woodson

    Product Details

    Category: Children’s Picture Books

    Paperback | $8.99
    Published by Puffin Books
    Aug 11, 2015 | 32 Pages | 9 x 11 | 5-7 years | ISBN 9780147516084

    Category: Children’s Picture Books

    Enhanced Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Puffin Books
    Aug 11, 2015 | 32 Pages | 5-7 years | ISBN 9780698191662

    Category: Children’s Books | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $5.00
    Published by Listening Library
    Aug 28, 2018 | 4 Minutes | 5-7 years | ISBN 9781984884176

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    Praise

    “This poignant picture book chronicles a joyfil girl narrator’s hard-to-bear anticipation and special preparations for a journey with her grandmother to see her father.. . A shared feeling of hope and tenderness pervades each spread.”–Publishers Weekly

    “Woodson stays firmly planted in the perspective of a sentient young child who is comforted by the familiarity of her world.”–Children’s Literature

    “The text is spare, gentle, and reassuring.”–School Library Journal

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