MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa ( KCCI ) -- At Glenwood Place, an assisted living facility in Marshalltown, Shirley Sternola, a long-time educator, read a children's book to local home-schooled kids 30 years after retiring, thanks to the facility's Dare to Dream program.

Sternola's caretaker, Angie Wilson with Iowa River Hospice, comes to Glenwood Place to do life reviews with her. There, Sternola shared that her passion is children's literature. She once owned a bookstore while living in Colorado called Bo Peep Books, a play off her maiden name, Lamb.

So Wilson got an idea. "I've had the opportunity to work with Glenwood with so many different patients through the years, and we just got to thinking about how this would be a great opportunity for one of the wish-granting that they do," she said.

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