The Right Word
Reviewed by Sandy Hall
I am a list-maker so I totally “get” Roget. I, too, have loved words since I was little, and the thesaurus was a book used many times in our homeschool days as I taught my own children to write. During the years when I taught English/Language Arts in schools, I would have my students help me make lists of synonyms for good, said, and other nondescriptive words. I thoroughly enjoyed The Right Word and learning about Roget’s childhood tendencies and how they blossomed into such a powerful tool still used today, albeit now on the computer at the click of a button. Melissa Sweet is the artist, and she illustrates with watercolor, mixed media and collage, which is beautifully done in The Right Word and seems to delightfully correspond with the topic of Roget’s life and his many lists of words.