All the Proud Tribesmen

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.[1]

All the Proud Tribesmen
AuthorKylie Tennant
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's fiction
PublisherMacmillan
Publication date
1959
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages159pp
Preceded byThe Honey Flow 
Followed byTrail Blazers of the Air 

Book summary

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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 pearl-diving population to migrate to a neighbouring island.

Critical reception

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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."[2]

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."[3]

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