'Let Me Eat Cake,' says Rooftop HippoThere's a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake

Usually children tell stories about me. Or invite me into their lives. I'm an imaginary friend and I have all the answers.

Yes, I do eat special cake. (And it's not always healthy carrot cake) I am big. I can do and eat anything. And despite Occupational Health and Safety Rules, yes I do live on the roof. I do not have a ladder-climbing-competency-certificate, but I can tap and belly-dance on my roof.

My creator Hazel Edwards refuses to write an autobiography so I've offered to answer a few questions, because we get so many fun letters, quirky cards and curious e-mails asking, "Why do you eat cake?"

Each monthly update, I will answer another reader's question. Email your questions to hippo@hazeledwards.com.

What would you like to ask me?

by 'There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake' a.k.a. Hazel Edwards.

Q1. I haven't got a friend. Will you come and sit on my roof?
A1. Yes. If you invite me.

Read more answers from Hippo. He's turning 30 next year! There are more Cake-Eating Hippo books and audio titles available.

Hazel Edwards is a Melbourne based author who writes books and scripts for children and adults. Picture book 'There's a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake' is her best known title which has been continually in print for 29 years and adapted for stage, radio, video and puppetry as well as widely translated. Read more about Hazel.

"Being an author means the opportunity to live more intensively by participant observation in places like Antarctic expeditions, but also by using imagination and asking 'What if?' as in the creation of the cake-eating hippo. Sometimes books travel even further than the author, into the minds and actions of readers"

Hazel Edwards