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"[The book depicts] events which came not only suddenly, without warning, but were of such magnitude that even the adults seemed powerless to absorb and comprehend what had really occurred... a unique, sustained perspective [of] children so very directly in harm's way."
-- Piedmont Post
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"We're under bombardment!
GET TO THE SHELTER!"
Why would a nine-year old girl have on her charm bracelet a diminute 32-caliber machine gun?
In October of 1940, Joan Zuber Earle and her older sister moved with their parents to Ford Island in the middle of Pearl Harbor. While her father, the new commander of the Marine barracks, and her mother set up housekeeping, the Zuber girls and their friends explore the Island paradise.
During the attack, the Arizona explodes five hundred feet from their family's quarters. The two
girls and their mother were strafed as they dashed to safety. Later on that day of infamy, the
girls helped respond to the attack by loading bullets for machine guns.
This wonderful book, The Children of Battleshop Row: Pearl Harbor, 1940 - 1941, documents from a child's-eye view one of the most dramatic and important
moments in American history. Must reading for children and their parents, it is the unforgettable story of a girl whom must grow up on a single day.
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Phone: 1-510-547-4109
Address:
Children of Battleship Row
P.O.Bos 268
4200 Park Blvd,
Oakland, CA 94602
Contact E-mail:
joanzearle@aol.com
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