All Alone is a children's book by Claire Huchet Bishop, published by Viking Press with illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky in 1953.
[1] Marcel Mabout is a "ten-year-old man", sent by his father with their three cows to summer pasture in the French mountains.
In the mountains, Marcel faces the cold, fear, and loneliness he was not prepared for.
Then Pierre's cows wander over to Marcel's mountain, and he is faced with a crisis of conscience that pits his antisocial upbringing with his inner sense of righteousness.
Deciding to take the risk of returning Pierre's cows, Marcel sets off a chain of events that leads to a revolution in the village.