![]() Lists in wildly expressive handwritten fonts along with cut-paper assemblages stuff the dynamic pages, even the appended time line and endpapers, with arresting detail. Echoing Roget’s obsession with words, Sweet’s intricate and elaborate collage illustrations-made out of textbooks, graph paper, maps, fabric, typewriter keys, and other found objects-put words on center stage. Even as he went to medical school and became a talented and respected physician, he still kept his book of word lists, gradually improving on the concept until he published his first thesaurus, classified thematically rather than alphabetically as it is today, in 1852. Born in the late eighteenth century, shy Roget was prone to wandering alone and began keeping lists of words at a young age. ![]() Bryant’s and Sweet’s talents combine to make the lowly thesaurus fascinating in this beautifully illustrated picture-book biography of Peter Mark Roget. ![]()
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