All the Proud Tribesmen

{{Short description|Book by Kylie Tennant}} {{Infobox book| | name = All the Proud Tribesmen | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:All_the_Proud_Tribesmen_book_cover.png | caption = | author = [[Kylie Tennant]] | cover_artist = | country = Australia | language = [[English language|English]] | series = | genre = Children's fiction | publisher = [[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] | release_date = 1959 | media_type = Print | pages = 159pp | isbn = | preceded_by = The Honey Flow | followed_by = Trail Blazers of the Air }}

'''''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.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137118152 "Kylie Tennant Wins Book of the Year Award", ''The Canberra Times'', 11 July 1960, p3]</ref>

== 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 pearl-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."<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23199197 "Modern Books for Children" by G.W.H., ''The Canberra Times'', 9 April 1960, p13]</ref>

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."<ref>[https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kylie-tennant-3/all-the-proud-tribesmen/ "''All the Proud Tribesmen'' by Kylie Tenant", ''Kirkus Reviews'', 27 May 1960]</ref>

==See also==

* [[1959 in Australian literature]] * [[1960 in Australian literature]]

==External links== * [https://openlibrary.org/books/OL5796765M ''All the Proud Tribesmen''] at the [[Open Library]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:All the Proud Tribesmen}} [[Category:Australian children's novels]] [[Category:1959 Australian novels]] [[Category:Children's books set on islands]] [[Category:Children's books set in Oceania]] [[Category:Children's books about volcanoes]] [[Category:CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award–winning works]] [[Category:1959 children's books]] [[Category:Fiction about pearls]]