Summary
The story of "shy young Peter Mark Roget, [for whom] books were the best companions--and it wasn't long before Peter began writing his own book. But he didn't write stories; he wrote lists. Peter took his love for words and turned it to organizing ideas and finding exactly the right word to express... Full description
Series: Incredible lives for young readers
A bird or two: a story about Henri Matisse
A river of words: the story of William Carlos Williams
Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation
The fantastic jungles of Henri Rousseau
The right word: Roget and his thesaurus
Fur, fins, and feathers: Abraham Dee Bartlett and the invention of the modern zoo
Only Margaret: a story about Margaret Wise Brown
Friend of numbers: the life of mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan