Although he came from a peasant farming background, during his childhood Ryti hardly participated in work on the family's large farm, being a bookish and academically inclined boy.

Young Gordie (Wheaton) is a quiet, bookish boy with a penchant for writing and telling stories.

Lance was a bookish, paranoid boy, with a kind heart and keen wit.

This time there is a bookish boy, a mother, and a friend of the mother's called Mme Picard.

Gore set out to break the mould of novels that up until The City and the Pillar depicted homosexuals as transvestites, lonely bookish boys, or feminine.

Dr. Selzer confesses that as a bookish boy, he endlessly imbibed 19th-century literature.

Dear Daniel is a smart, enterprising, bookish boy the same age as Kitty.

Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto...Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.

At one stage he was adopted out to a paper-making family but the bookish boy was not suited to business.