Perry - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy: at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941

by Jan Carol Duncan, Kanae Koyama (Illustrator), Naoimi Shin (Translator)

Overview

The journey of a boy named Perry, who lives in a small Texas town, learns to play the bugle in school. Later, when he joins the Navy, he becomes a bugler for his ship. The events of WWII not only changed the world but changed this young man.

Halfway around the world in Japan, another boy named Zenji learns to become a pilot. He was also brought up in a small town and didn't know what was ahead of him or who he would meet in the near future.

Perry, who was on watch on the USS Raleigh at Pearl Harbor, would never guess the outcome of the events on the morning of December 7, 1941. An unlikely meeting would eventually bridge the gap between Perry and Zenji, even though they were different in many ways.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798855642674
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	10/29/2023
Series:	Pearl Harbor Surivior Stories for Children , #1
Pages:	102
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.28(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Jan Carol Duncan was born in Fort Worth, Texas. She travels the world, spending time mainly in Hawaii, where she feels at home. Duncan’s new book, Perry, is a true story that her father first told her as a little girl.
Jan is a published nonfiction author and the daughter of Pearl Harbor Survivor Pat Perry Duncan. They wrote the book Pat Perry Duncan, USS Raleigh’s Bugler Dec 7, 1941, together in from which the book Perry was born.
Another one of her children’s books, “I Am A Child of God”, was written to inspire toddlers and parents to embrace their uniqueness.
She also produced the children’s television show, “Circle of Love”, which created a voice for children to express their beliefs about cultures and religions. She wrote and produced songs used in the show.
She continues to write nonfiction children’s books about animals and children from all over the world.

Kanae Koyama draws a spiritual world that is colorful and borderless.
She grew up in Tokyo in 1980 and lived with her family on the premises of her grandfather’s temple, who was a priest. From an early age, she became accustomed to Buddhist culture, and its influence is manifested in the high spirituality of her work. She has been painting through various paints with crayons, watercolors, colored pencils, oils and acrylics.
She traveled to Bali in 2003 and met Balinese painters depicting the spiritual world. The following year, she studied Balinese painting at a painter’s house in Bali. When she returned to Japan, she began to learn and experiment with incorporating Buddhist paintings like traditional Japanese paintings depicting flower bird fans with gods depicted in Balinese paintings. In 2015, she worked intensely on the production of a Konden-temple mandala.
She values inspiration and draws pictures using water blotting with color inks. She tells many people that through the picture is how to have a free mind unconstrained by rules. As long as there is inspiration, Kanae Koyama continues to produce art.