Sentence examples for extraordinary boy from inspiring English sources

All this makes her an expert chronicler of ordinariness – and this, paradoxically, is what makes her story of an extraordinary boy so wonderful.

Similarly, Terry Jones's Fairy Tales, The Saga of Erik the Viking, and Nicobobinus ("the story of the most extraordinary boy who ever stuck his tongue out at the prime minister"), were all made unforgettable by Michael Foreman's luminous, terrifying watercolours.

Christopher Long (Long Island, NY): My partner, Paul, and I have been blessed with five extraordinary boys!

THE BOY IN THE MOON: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son, by Ian Brown.

THE BOY IN THE MOON A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son.

The joy of boyhood and the darkness at its edges are conveyed in scenes of extraordinary imagination – boys lashed to a deck in a storm, a dog biting down on the throat of a man, a girl skating across the deck of a ship in the early morning, a prisoner in chains walking its length at night.

Before I had a chance to digest this extraordinary remark, the boy assistant stepped up beside me, threateningly close.

The water was so shockingly icy that Kodi came up crying and couldn't stop — but he never broke character and, as a result, the scene is one of extraordinary power, The Boy in his father's arms, his awful suffering exposed at last.

Brock Cole, whose other picture books include "The Giant's Toe" and "Alpha and the Dirty Baby," has also written novels for older children and young adults, including "The Goats," an extraordinary book about an adolescent boy and girl who are humiliated and abandoned on a lonely island during a hazing incident at a summer camp.

Berman stood out for his extraordinary control over boys' lives.

Continuing an extraordinary voyage for a boy who was shipwrecked off Florida and had never flown before, Elian was then put on a United States Marshals Service plane for Washington.