At the door he barely avoided falling over a round-faced little boy with keen black eyes that recalled those of his father.

Midway through the day, I sat down next to Chris, a round-faced 11-year-old boy with a black bowl cut.

A large, round-faced boy appeared from the hall.

Everybody else laughed too, "I had a new bicycle for my Easter present," said a round-faced boy.

Finally, a round-faced little boy delivers the clincher: "I want to be forced into early retirement."

"Here we were, three men at a table talking housing proposals, and this round-faced boy just sat there, smiling and listening," Mr. Stern said.

Yokonomi, whose father is divorced from Ms. Cucuta, is a round-faced boy who likes his PlayStation and always asks "why?"

To this day I can feel myself almost swooning with shame as I stood, a very small, round-faced boy in short corduroy knickers, before the two women.

A round-faced boy with very long, wavy blond hair said, "Din't it have a bra?"