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unusual facts about Of a Boy


Sonya Hartnett

Of a Boy (adult, 2002) (first published in the UK as What the Birds See in 2003)



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1990 Manjil-Rudbar earthquake

After Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami found out about the death of a boy who had acted in his film Where Is the Friend's Home?, he was led to make a film about humanity and catastrophe called And Life Goes On.

Amos T. Akerman

Upon graduation, Akerman moved south and got a job as a headmaster instructor of a boy’s academy in Murfreesboro, North Carolina, at that time part of Richmond county.

Antonio Pasin

In 1933 he commissioned a 45-foot art-deco statue of a boy riding a wagon above a mini 25-cent souvenir wagon store at the Chicago World's Fair.

Chavagnes International College

The College also plays host to a range of traditions with a particularly Catholic and/or English flavour: religious processions, the election of a boy bishop on St Nicholas Day, an annual 110 km pilgrimage on foot from Paris to Chartres, rising at dawn on May Day to welcome the summer, and rowing in coxed fours.

Clive King

Clive King's best-known novel is Stig of the Dump (1963), illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, which follows the adventures of a boy who discovers a Stone-Age cave-dweller living at the bottom of a disused chalk pit (which has been used as an unofficial rubbish dump) in Kent.

Florence Parry Heide

Her best known works are a series of story books about the curious adventures of a boy named Treehorn, which includes the titles The Shrinking of Treehorn (1971), Treehorn's Treasure (1981) and Treehorn’s Wish (1986), all of which Edward Gorey illustrated.

He Liked to Feel It

The video featured the band performing on a New York City rooftop interspersed with scenes of a boy pulling his tooth out in various ways, including tying the tooth to a taxicab, tying the tooth to a steak and throwing it to a dog on the other side of a fence, and tying the tooth to a crane.

Janel Moloney

On February 14, 2010, in New York, Moloney became the mother of a boy, Julian Francis Zarvos, whose father is composer Marcelo Zarvos.

Kevin Sampsell

The Portland Monthlys review characterizes it as the story of a boy growing up in a lower-class family from Kennewick, Washington and asserts "praise trails the writer and poet".

Kult

The local newspaper Tønsbergs Blad in Tønsberg, Norway similarly used Kult in relation to the disappearance of a boy called Andreas Hammer on July 1, 1994.

Mini Grey

WorldCat reports from participating libraries that her most widely held work is Traction Man is Here, about the household adventures of a boy's action figure; published in 2005 by Cape and in the U.S. by Random House (Alfred A. Knopf).

My Dog Skip

"My Dog Skip" is the story about nine-year-old Willie Morris growing up in Yazoo City, Mississippi, a tale of a boy and his dog in a small, sleepy Southern town that teaches us about family, friendship, love, devotion and bravery.

Nacho Cerdà

Created in 1990, it tells of a boy for whom time stops upon falling asleep in a classroom, only later realising that he had actually died and was experiencing an out-of-body phenomena.

Rita Goold

The voice of Russell was meant to be the voice of a boy but investigators described the voice as female and a "Monty Pythonesque".

The Music Tapes

The band has yet to see an official release of The 2nd Imaginary Symphony for Cloudmaking, a story album consisting of the story of a boy named Nigh, who lives with his grandmother who is blind.

The Romance Of Maoriland

The cast included Patch Mason, Tom Campbell and apparently Stella Southern as the mother of a boy passenger kidnapped during the holdup episode.

The Saga of Darren Shan

The Saga of Darren Shan (known as Cirque du Freak: The Saga of Darren Shan in the US) is a young adult 12 part book series written by Darren Shan (his real name, Darren O'Shaughnessy) about the struggle of a boy who has become involved in the world of vampires.

Thunderpants

Empire magazine wrote in their review that Thunderpants is "a well-made, quirky oddity for adults, but a laugh riot for kids and Beano nostalgists...underneath all the expelled air it’s really just a simple tale of a boy finding his talent and making the most of it".

Urethral foreign body

The Chuck Palahniuk story "Guts", from the novel Haunted, includes the story of a boy in his early teens inserting candle wax into his urethra.

Whizziwig

Whizziwig centred on the adventures of a boy called Ben and his best friend Steve who befriended a small pink alien approximately the size of a rugby ball.

Zardip's Search for Healthy Wellness

He takes the form of a boy and ventures to Earth to report the habits of humans to his home planet.