Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder

by Jo Nesbø

Book Overview

Bestselling Norwegian mystery author Jo Nesb enters the world of children's books with Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder, the first book in this very funny middle-grade series. Filled with magic, wit, and bathroom humor, Doctor Proctor will keep boys and girls laughing until the end.

Eleven-year-old Nilly is new to the neighborhood, but he is quick to make friends: Doctor Proctor, an eccentric professor who invents wacky potions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416979727
• ISBN13: 9781416979722
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

My kids loved this book

As a mom, there is no better sound in the world than that of your kids laughter and this book brought it on! This book had my kids rolling on the floor cracking up! They were quoting the book constantly though out the day. I would buy it again and am considering purchasing a few to use as birthday gifts throughout the school year. We were in a bookstore the other day and my kids recommended this book to another child that was looking at it.

The most exciting thing to happen to your butt EVER!

I had a delightful time reading this book with my 6 year old son! He's an advanced reader, but the subject matter in this book was right on target! I mean, seriously, what boy doesn't like farting, hasn't had to deal with bullies, hasn't felt small, and wished for an adventure where they have to escape from the Dungeon of the Dead!? A real page turner and highly recommended!

Fantastic Fart Fiction

A perfect book for the 11 year old nephew, I heard he could not put it down. My phone call to him yielded many hilarious anecdotes. I could see him crying while laughing while he told me his favorite parts. This isn't a kid who gets into reading so even though it's not one of the most cultured of topics, he loved it. He said it should be made into a movie.

What the world needs: more books about farting

As a children's librarian, sometimes I look at the rows of books on my shelves in despair. Diary of a Wimpy Kid is checked out in toto, and my young patrons have read all of Captain Underpants. What else do I have to offer them? Errr, Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Secret Garden? Beverly Cleary? With Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder, I need look no further! I can't go wrong with a book with "fart" in the title. Nor will my young patrons be cheated at check out. They'll be taking home with them a book involving anacondas in sewers, TWO kinds of fart powder (Doctor Proctor's Totally Normal Fart Powder and the more powerful Fartonaut Powder), bullies, villains, chase scenes involving Hummers, dungeons, mustachioed police, a powder that turns you glowing translucent green so that you can see your own skeleton, marching bands, sewer sliding, and a foiled robbery. All tied together with a very neat plot that keeps snapping the reader to attention and in the end leaves the two young farts, Lisa and Nilly (William) good friends. Mike Lowery's minimal line drawings add greatly to the drollery. Author Jo Nesbo has done a terrific job of creating a great story around what parents have always considered a disgusting and unspeakable human function and what kids, esp. boys, consider to be one which is endlessly fascinating, i.e., farting. Jo Nesbo is to farting what D.H. Lawrence was to that other disgusting and unspeakable human function!