The First Walkabout
| Author | Norman B. Tindale & Harold Arthur Lindsay |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's fiction |
| Publisher | Longmans Green |
Publication date | 1954 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 129pp |
The First Walkabout (1954) is a novel for children by Australian authors Norman B. Tindale & Harold Arthur Lindsay, illustrated by Madeleine Boyce. It won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers in 1955.[1]
Plot outline
The book tells the story of the very earliest occupation of the continent of Australia by the Negrito people, a diminutive race that arrived in Australia before the present-day aborigines' ancestors.
Critical reception
While covering a selection of possible Christmas book gifts for children in The Brisbane Telegraph in 1954, a reviewer noted: "Mr. Tindale is ethnologist at the South Australian museum, and Mr. Lindsay is the well-known authority on the Australian bushland. They have collaborated to produce an authentic and entertaining story of Australia some ten or twelve thousand years ago."[2]