Ever since the family of eight-year-old Moritz moved to another city, everything has gone wrong. The parents are always busy and often quarrel, mom now has a different job and an evil boss, and Moritz is constantly bullied by his new classmates, and he doesn’t want to go to school at all. But everything changes when Moritz meets a friendly elderly gentleman at his entrance. He has a very strange name - Leopold Rosochka, and he really turns out to be a very unusual neighbor. Mister Rosochka bakes the most delicious cookies in the world, knows where to harvest colorful umbrellas, how to find a tiny park tiger and talk to a real elephant. And, according to him, he can even re-educate his mother’s boss... “Mr. Rosette” is the first of three books about Mr. Rosette by the German children’s writer and journalist Silke Lambeck. In 2009, the book received the prestigious French literary prize Chronos.