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The Right Word: A Children’s Book about Peter Roget and His Thesaurus

The Right Word: A Children’s Book about Peter Roget and His Thesaurus

by Melanie Scheller | Nov 17, 2023 | 0 comments

My father died when I was ten years old. Other than a photograph or two, I have only a few tangible objects that connect me to him. One thing I do have is his thesaurus. Those of you born before the dawn of the Age of Google may think that I inherited my...
Words Defined:  Children’s Books about Noah Webster and His Dictionary

Words Defined: Children’s Books about Noah Webster and His Dictionary

by Melanie Scheller | Nov 3, 2023 | 0 comments

In the old days, we had to look in a dictionary if we wanted to know the meaning of a word.  Dictionaries weighed as much as a small whale and had approximately 47 bazillion pages of teeny-weeny print. If you didn’t already know how to spell the word, you were...

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