Country Australia Genre Children's fiction Media type Print Originally published 1959 | Publication date 1959 Pages 159pp | |
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Works by Kylie Tennant The man on the headland, Ride on Stranger, Foveaux, The Battlers | ||
All the Proud Tribesmen (1959) is a children's novel by Australian author Kylie Tennant, illustrated by Clem Seale. The book won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers in 1960.
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Book summary
The book tells the story of a 12-year-old boy from an imaginary island in the Torres Strait and of a volcanic disaster that drives the local fishing and pear-diving population to migrate to a neighbouring island.
Critical reception
E.B. in The Canberra Times was brief: "Written for children Miss Tennant's new work of fiction is an intelligent story of the missionary stage of the changing pattern of social living for the island people of our near north."
As was the reviewer in Kirkus Reviews: "Kylie Tennant tells a good story and enriches it with a vivid picture of the islands and the men who inhabit them."