In a word: marvelous!” From Kirkus, Starred Review
Injecting her watercolor palette with shots of teal, scarlet and fuchsia, Sweet embeds vintage bits (ledger paper, type drawers, botanical illustrations and more), creating a teeming, contemplative, playfully celebratory opus. Sweet tops herself - again! - visually reflecting Roget’s wide range as a thinker and product of the Enlightenment. “Bryant’s prose is bright and well-tuned for young readers.
Together with Bryant’s sympathetic account, Sweet’s gentle riot of images and words humanizes the man behind this ubiquitous reference work and demystifies the thesaurus itself.” From Publisher’s Weekly, Starred Review “Sweet envisions Roget’s work as a shadow box crammed with the wonders of the natural world, adorned with exuberant hand-lettered typography. She includes a collage-like style to the illustrations, including “old botanicals, vintage papers, book covers, type drawers, watercolors and mixed media.” The endpapers located at the back of the book include the original 1000 words that Roget published in 1852. In fact, her illustrator’s note informs us that the Latin lists are from Roget’s notebook. Melissa Sweet’s style of illustrations represent her ideas of what Roget’s notebooks looked like. Bryant includes a list of principal events surrounding Roget’s life at the end of the story, along with her bibliography and a list of resources “for further reading.” In her author’s note, she tells us that he was only 26 years old when he published his first thesaurus “which has remained in print continuously since 1852.” This is a resource that nearly every child or adult has encountered in their quest to find “the right word.” He wanted to be able to find “the right word,” whenever it was needed. As he grew up, his new learning would get added to his lists. He had trouble making young friends however, he soon learned that books “were also good friends.” Roget would create books with lists of Latin words he had learned and their English translation. He soon decided that he wanted to make his list available to everyone, which soon became published as Roget’s Thesaurus.īryant includes many details of Roget’s life, including his time as a young child, raised by a single mother who always dotted on him. Throughout his time at medical school and in his career, he began to make lists of words, organized by topic or idea. Throughout his childhood, he kept notebooks of lists and ideas. The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus tells about the life of Peter Mark Roget, who loved to create lists and organize information.
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdman’s Books for Young Readers.
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