2015 Robert F. Sibert Award Winner
2015 Caldecott Honor Book
Peter Roget didn't like to speak unless he had the exact word he was looking for, which was not always easy to find. Frustrated at not being able to find the word he wanted when he wanted it Roget began making lists. Lists of plants, lists of emotions, hundreds of them. Of course they were just for him to use- who else would want to lists of words? As time went on Peter Roget became a tutor, a doctor, and a lecturer. Impressed by how well he spoke others began wanting to sound like him. Thesauruses were beginning to pop up in book stores but none were as detailed and easy to use as Roget's. Persuaded by his children Roget eventually published his thesaurus and viola! The English language hasn't been the same since.
In the same fashion that Melissa Sweet's Balloons over Broadway has been used to introduce young children to biographies so too can The right word. It is no coincidence that Melissa Sweet illustrated The right word. Sweet brings her own unique blend of colorful detailed pictures to this story just as she did her own book. Below is a book trailer for The right word: Roget and his thesaurus, although the trailer does say that Roget created the first thesaurus which does go against the information in the book. Despite that little indiscretion it is still a nicely done trailer.
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