Booksignings are wonderful events..... Booksignings with author lectures are even better events..... Booksignings with author lectures that an audience of children is excited to listen to are phenomenal events!!!! Today was one such phenomenal event! Gordon Korman is a master at reaching the interest of his target audience. It is very clear that he has children, that he's spent a good deal of time around children---- or at the very least, can still work his mind to think like children. Each 700+ crowd of children that filed into the CAC auditorium today sat rapt as they listened to stories of Everest and Mozart and million-dollar baseball card swindles. Through three lectures and two booksigning sessions, Gordon Korman lost none of his energy, none of his stamina, none of his eagerness to connect with his audience. One of the more humorous anecdotes he discussed were the problems that he faced when his books were translated into the many languages they are now being read i...