So freaking awesome…

“So, you guys are readers. And so, being a reader myself, I wanted to come meet all these outstanding readers,” Obama said. Without much speechifying — the visit lasted about 30 minutes — Obama shared his game plan with the youngsters.

“What I’m going to do is, I’m just going to come around, I’m going to shake people’s hands. I’m going to say ‘hi’ to folks,” Obama said. “And you guys can tell me what you’ve been reading, all right?”

The president went from table to table, asking questions and shaking hands. Students said they’d been reading “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” and “Goosebumps,” among other books, as well as the Harry Potter series.

“Malia and I read the Harry Potter books. We thought those were pretty good,” Obama said. At one point, he noted that he had just seen Spike Jonze’s movie adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book, “Where the Wild Things Are.”

“That’s a great book,” Obama said, and he rated the movie “worth seeing.”

An 8-year-old named Maya proclaimed that “this is the best day of my life — in school.”

At another table, Christian Torres, 8, kept covering his face with his hands and jumping up and down. He said that he knew the president was coming “when we saw suits. And we saw police.”

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