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In the 1955 movie, The Glass Slipper, the fairy godmother lists her favorite words chosen for their sound: "apple dumpling," "elbow," "pickled relish," "windowsill." So, too when Melissa Sweet, an illustrator with dozens of books to her credit was urged by her editor to write her own, she started with words whose sounds appealed to her - words like "viola," "pluck," and "dwadle".
She gave herself an assignment: come up with one hundred such words and incorporate them into a book. For her subject matter, she turned to a character about whom she had always been curious, Little Red Riding Hood.
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