Category Archives: Reading/Authors

Adult Sensory Reading Group Creates Their Own Book

The Adult Sensory Reading circle at Windsor Public Library Riverside Branch was very excited this past week to see their book printed.  As a group, we read Michael Hall’s book The Perfect Square, and decided to create our own version.  We called our book The Happy Square, and wrote a story about a square that was bored with being a square.  This square changed into many different different things, but...
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Maya Angelou: Poet, Author and Activist 1928-2014

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” ~ Maya Angelou The literary world suffered a great loss this week. Renowned author and poet Maya Angelou passed away Wednesday, May 28, at the age of 86. Angelou was the author of numerous books, essays and collections of poetry. Renowned for her deeply personal prose and her civil rights activism, Angelou received many...
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Nelson Mandela – 1918-2013

The world has lost a leader whose like we will not see again. After spending much of this year in and out of hospital, Nelson Mandela died today, December 5, 2013, at age 95, after a life which hit the nadir and reached the zenith of human experience. While we are all poorer for his loss, we are infinitely richer for his impact on the 20th Century and humankind. Experience...
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