David Greenberg - Author's Visit

It was a couple of weeks ago that this happened. Everything was going on like it always does, every day. Then, out of no where, our teacher suddenly announced that a real live author was coming to our school to visit us in a couple of days! Some of us were really exited about the news, and some were...well...not. So anyways, I was really exited; I'd never seen a real live author ever in my life before! And obviously, we pestered our teacher (actually we asked and she told us, but pestered seems more...lively and...exiting, I guess you could call it) to tell us who the author was. And she told us. It was David Greenberg. I had never heard of the guy and was honestly hoping for someone like J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter) or Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Heroes Of Olympus, and The Kane Chronicles) or someone like that, not guy-whose-name-I-already-forgot. My excitement ebbed away, leaving me sorely disappointed. 

The day came. David Greenberg was giving a speech, and we all had to go to the auditorium for it. The only good thing was that we got to miss math. And then the guy came up on the stage. If you asked me, he did not look very special. He just looked, well, ordinary. I mean if you passed this guy on the street, you wouldn't even know he was a writer. He had gray curls and he wore clothes that were...well...normal.

David Greenberg introduced himself and started talking. His speech was really fun and allowed us (the audience) to interact with him. Mr. Greenberg was also really funny and silly. I began enjoying his speech. He also read us a couple of his books (he writes picture books and poems). David Greenberg gave us writing tips, encouraged us on our writing, and told us about how it was never easy being an writer. By the time his speech was halfway done, I had already become a huge fan of him and his work. Here is a bit of his speech:

When he was done, Mr. Greenberg gave out autographs (I got one!!!) and later, I also had my photo taken with him. It was soooooo fun!!!!!!!

One of the things that made this event really special for the entire school is that David Greenberg is our first and (so far) only visiting author. The other thing is that he came from nearly the other side of the world just to visit our school (and sell books and sign autographs and all that other stuff).