Ransome’s illustrations for Visiting Day are filled with warm, bright colors, and describes the prison’s visiting room as a space filled with men laughing and embracing their children. These are images that can help children see prisons as places where love can survive, but there are some aspects of incarceration that even the brightest colors cannot change.

　　The book ends, as it must, with the girl leaving the prison with her grandmother, and leaving her father behind. But the two remain focused on the future, and on their knowledge that they are still a family. “Grandma says all it takes is time,” the girl tells us, “and while we’re holding out waiting for Daddy to come home we can count our blessings and love each other up .”

　　The struggle of growing up with a parent in prison is a story children’s literature is just beginning to tell. Writing of his work on Visiting Day,illustrator James E. Ransome remarked that he “questioned whether or not we should clarify such a controversial issue.” Visiting Day was published in 2002, and it’s difficult to say whether, in the decade, Americans have grow more willing to talk about the needless suffering mass incarceration(监禁) brings down both prisoners and their families—or whether America’s prison population has simply grown so astonishing that we finally recognize we cannot put off this conversation any longer.

　　28. What can we learn about Visiting Day ?

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