"Should WONDER WOMAN be allowed, even though a woman, to become a member of the Justice Society?" Of the first eighteen hundred and one questionnaires returned, twelve hundred and sixty-five boys and three hundred and thirty-three girls said yes; a hundred and ninety-seven boys, and just six girls, said no. Wonder Woman joined the Justice Society.
The winner chosen by the remaining judges was Ben Okri's The Famished Road - a beautifully written (yes) story of a boy in a west African village who goes to and fro between his family and the local witchdoctor.
As the DJs, pop stars (yes, there was a boy band), their minders and clubbers sped off into the night, their hire cars thudding to the beat, Hanna and I headed off to a villa near Santa Eulalia on the east of the island.
Gilbert served in the military driving nuclear submarines, and yes, he was a boy scout.
I can't quite put my finger on why I keep using this new app called Steven – yes, Steven, like a boy's name – but I do.
So yes, when he was a boy in Little Rock, Ark., he built the biggest toy soldier collection among his friends and had model bombers dangling from his ceiling.
A boy who yes ma'am-ed and no sir-ed his elders but would fall to temptation and yank a girl's pigtails at recess.
"Was it actually really dull, or was it just a boy film?" Well yes, it is violent, and it depends slightly on an awareness of the conventions of gangster films, but it has character development and moral conundrums.
And yes, Chamberlain insists, he did watch baseball as a boy.
All the older books take part in the tragifying or sensationalizing of queerness, (yes, even Boy Meets Boy, if only because the reader knows the contrast of their world to ours).
