Jen Bryant has written numerous books for young readers, including Georgia's Bones and A River ofWords, winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award.Her book A Splash of Red (Knopf)received the Schneider Family Book Award and theNCTE Orbis Pictus Award for nonfiction. She lives inPennsylvania. Melissa Sweet (www.melissasweet.net) hasillustrated many award winning books, including ARiver of Words (Eerdmans), a 2009 Caldecott Honorbook, and A Splash of Red (Knopf), an NCTEOrbis Pictus Award winner and a Sibert Honor book. Shealso wrote and illustrated Balloons OverBroadway (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), winner of the2012 Sibert Medal and the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award.Melissa lives in Maine.
-- Publishers 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. 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." --
Kirkus Reviews (STARRED Review)
Bryant's prose is bright and well-tuned for young readers. . . .
Sweet tops herself -- again! -- visually reflecting Roget's wide
range as a thinker and product of the Enlightenment. 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. In a word: marvelous!" -- Booklist
(STARRED review)
"In brilliant pages teeming with enthusiasm for language and
learning, Bryant and Sweet joyfully celebrate curiosity, the love
of knowledge, and the power of words." -- School Library Journal
(STARRED review)
"Those who have relied upon a thesaurus . . . will gain a greater
appreciation for the reference tool in this beautifully designed
picture book biography of its creator, Peter Roget. . . . Busy and
exuberant, Sweet's charming watercolor illustrations, layered over
collages of vintage images and fonts, capture Roget's passion for
classification while also providing readers new opportunities for
discovery. . . . Expertly researched and well written, Bryant's
narrative not only details the creation of the thesaurus; it also
conveys a sense of Roget the man. . . . An excellent illustrated
biography." The Horn Book (STARRED review)
"Apt language and ingenious imagery. . . . both decorous and warm."
-- Capitol Choices
"From its busy end pages this lively book brings to life a creator
and the words he was fascinated by." New York Times
"Spirited portrait of the Swiss-born Victorian who found an
ingenious way to help people say what they mean." Washington
Post
"Young readers will see that each page of this book, like each page
of 'Roget's Thesaurus, ' contains multitudes." The Bulletin of the
Center for Children's Books
"Encourages a sense of wonder. . . . Myriad visual temptations
luring viewers into a fine browsing experience." Midwest Book
Review
"The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus is a fabulous illustrated
junior biography, celebrating the richness and power of words, and
the wonderful story of the man who organized and listed words to
make them accessible to all who are literate." Through the Looking
Glass Children's Book Reviews
"In this remarkable book Jen Bryant's lyrical text is paired with
Melissa Sweet's wonderful multimedia artwork to give young readers
a compelling story about a man whose book of words, and their
meanings, is now a valuable tool used by writers of all kinds."
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