Jo Nesbø

Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder

Doctor Proctor #1

Doctor Proctor is a crazy professor. Well, almost. Actually, he is an aging inventor waiting for his big break. When he teams up with his next-door neighbor Lisa and her peculiar friend Nilly in making the world’s most powerful farting powder, it seems like his dream is about to come true. But in the background lurk the ruthless twins Truls and Trym Thrane. The drama that is sparked on Cannon Avenue will have repercussions that stretch beyond the imaginable, involving a wild chase through the sewer system of Oslo, anacondas, and NASA. With a great deal of humor and witty dialogs, Jo Nesbo chisels out his wonderfully weird characters and lets his imagination run wild in this delightful children’s book début reminiscent of Roald Dahl.

Through a fantastic story that contains an equal amount of suspense, laughs and colorful characters, Jo Nesbø offers a deftly veiled moral to his young readers: all in all, Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder is a story about the importance of being yourself, and how the required courage is bestowed through creativity and imagination.

Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder was shortlisted for Ark’s Children’s Book Award (Arks barnebokpris) for ‘Best Children’s Book’ 2007 and was selected for The Richard and Judy Children’s Book Club in 2011.