Goodness gracious! Mr Roberelli has a website.

If you already have the House on Wheels CD in your house or car, we're pretty sure the songs are inspiring pictures in your head. When young Sophie illustrated the CD booklet, we had to leave out lots of her drawings because there wasn't space for them. Now we have all the space we could hope for and are very keen to see your versions of the things that happen in Roberelli land. Please send us your comments and illustrations/paintings/sketches so we can put them on the website for others to see.

We doubt you'll need them, but here are some thoughts to start you off:

How are things up on the mountain, Ken?
I could be living in your garden ...
If you want to go to Rosenblitz ...
The ponds of Nova Scotia ...
The snowy Pyrenees ...
Slicin' up your greens so they resemble alligators ...
The time he was devoured by a whale ...
The milky way is glistening ... and it's only afternoon ...
The one standing there called Bill ...
You don't scare me, Mister Dragon ...
A nice place to hang your quilts ...
If you can get your hands on a giant's shirt ...
Laces on a leopard's shoe ...
Paint a face on a kangaroo ...
He's as bendy as spaghetti ...

Speaking of spaghetti, this Mr Roberelli fellow is special for a few reasons.

He's the guy who whispers the songs into the air while I'm walking past. I get sent a tune and a line or two on the breeze and then he leaves it up to me, with the help of my friends, to do the rest. And I hear songs all over the place so it just goes to show, you never know when he's around.

Also, as the song tells, Mr Roberelli has a very interesting anatomy. It's as if he can leave his skeleton at home and hide out in very cramped spaces. Neither you nor I could fit in the tight spots he squeezes into. As you can imagine, he can turn up just about anywhere. That's bad news for the bad guys.

One thing Mr Roberelli's songs tell us is that he is very young at heart. Does he ever age? I don't know. I only ever catch brief glimpses of him. Judging by the songs for the next CD, he's getting younger and younger and more and more curious.

Rob Wigley