Awards - Newbery Award Review - "The Romance of old Salem, sailing ships, the adventures and legends of the sea, and the perseverance and integrity of a boy are skillfully combined in this very readable biography . . . . A thrilling and challenging story of a mathematical genius who fought the handicaps of physical smallness, poverty and superstitions and wrote maybe one of the greatest sailing navigation books in our history, The American Practical Navigator"; The Saturday Review.