Agnė's Reviews > The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus

I am glad I learned about Peter Mark Roget. In case you don't know, he is a man who created our beloved Thesaurus, a book of synonyms and antonyms that has stayed in print continuously since its first publication in 1852. Such an accomplished personality, and I knew absolutely NOTHING about him!

Melissa Sweet's mixed-media illustrations in The Right Word are creative and extremely effective in conveying Roget's word-collecting and list-making mind:





However, although I LOVED Sweet's artwork in Little Red Writing, the illustrations in The Right Word are a little bit too busy and overwhelming for my liking.