Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder: Time-Travel Bath Bomb
    Unavailable
    Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder: Time-Travel Bath Bomb
    Unavailable
    Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder: Time-Travel Bath Bomb
    Ebook278 pages3 hours

    Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder: Time-Travel Bath Bomb

    By Jo Nesbø

    4/5

    ()

    Unavailable in your country

    Unavailable in your country

    About this ebook

    The Fart Powder was such a successful invention that Doctor Proctor couldn't stop there. Next up: a Time-travel Bath Bomb. Throw the Bath Bomb in the tub, lather up and imagine where you'd like to visit. The battle of Waterloo? No problem. The French Revolution? Let's go! Doctor Proctor has plans for this new invention. Years ago he lost his true love, Juliette Margarine, and now he wants to change the past and win her back. But when his plan goes awry, it's up to Nilly and LIsa to travel in time and save the day.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
    Release dateJan 19, 2012
    ISBN9780857077134
    Unavailable
    Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder: Time-Travel Bath Bomb
    Author

    Jo Nesbø

    A musician, songwriter, and economist, Jo Nesbø is also one of Europe’s most acclaimed crime writers, and is the winner of the Glass Key Award, northern Europe’s most prestigious crime-fiction prize, for his first novel featuring Police Detective Harry Hole. Nesbø lives in Oslo.

    Read more from Jo Nesbø

    Related to Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder

    Related ebooks

    Children's For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Word Warrior Competition 2021

      Nov 4, 2021

      He is back … and you are invited to spend some time with Detective Nkomba! Enter the Word Warrior 2021 Competition NOW! Show us the end result of your in-depth interview in a written piece of no longer than three pages. 1. Set the scene: are you a ta

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Haunted Generation

      Nov 30, 2023

      “I was a little late seeing The Stone Tape for the first time,” admits Rob Glover. “It was something myself and a close knit group of friends had read about online, mentioned in whispers on Internet forums. We had to hunt it down…” Safe to say he’s c

      5 min read

    • Article

      Fake Plastic Trees

      Dec 12, 2022

      Fake Plastic Trees
      4 min read

    • Article

      Fred Deakin

      Oct 25, 2019

      Fred Deakin
      7 min read

    • Article

      “This Everest Of A Role”

      Oct 18, 2021

      “This Everest Of A Role”
      12 min read

    • Article

      The Piano Man's Grand Tour

      Jul 26, 2023

      Anything you can’t leave home without? I’m a very keen tourist, and I used to take John Michell’s Sacred England and the National Trust Handbook. Is there something you really miss? Quite a lot of musicians take their own pillow. Noel Gallagher takes

      3 min read

    • Article

      ‘Complex. Unsettling. Creepy.’ Jarvis Cocker, Colm Tóibín And More On The Disturbing Genius Of Artangel

      Jun 27, 2023

      A solitary figure crossing between three Glasgow tower blocks on a narrow metal wire 90 metres up. A converted library, with ice and water instead of books, looking out at the south-west coast of Iceland. A 1,000-year-old musical composition projecte

      9 min read

    • Article

      Roger’s PROFANISAURUS

      Nov 17, 2022

      Roger’s PROFANISAURUS
      7 min read

    • Article

      Lisa Gerrard

      Sep 9, 2022

      Lisa Gerrard
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Haunted Generation

      Mar 21, 2024

      “I love that crossover of high strangeness in 1970s suburbia,” says Neil Scrivin. “Creepy stone heads dug up in a garden, poltergeist activity and apparitions of weird creatures. It could almost be a follow-up to The Stone Tape…” The story of the Hex

      3 min read

    • Article

      Lewes And Eastbourne

      Oct 25, 2021

      Lewes And Eastbourne
      4 min read

    • Article

      Staff Picks: Detritus, Dreamin’, Dinos

      Jul 14, 2017

      From Paleoart.   First published in 1966, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, by Justin Kaplan, is still the standard biography of our most enduringly funny writer—or, at least, the earliest writer who makes me actually laugh. I avoided it till now because I

      5 min read

    • Article

      Into The Mystic

      Oct 12, 2023

      Into The Mystic
      12 min read

    • Article

      Mixtapes Go Modern

      Oct 21, 2019

      Mixtapes Go Modern
      6 min read

    • Article

      Harmonies

      Aug 13, 2019

      Harmonies
      5 min read

    • Article

      Magpie Myth And Magic

      Jul 23, 2020

      Magpie Myth And Magic
      5 min read

    • Article

      Wheels On Fire

      Oct 15, 2019

      Wheels On Fire
      9 min read

    • Article

      Singing With Nightingales

      Mar 9, 2023

      Singing With Nightingales
      4 min read

    • Article

      Singing With Nightingales

      Mar 9, 2023

      Singing With Nightingales
      4 min read

    • Article

      A Walk In Milk Wood

      Mar 9, 2023

      A Walk In Milk Wood
      5 min read

    • Article

      A Walk In Milk Wood

      Mar 9, 2023

      A Walk In Milk Wood
      5 min read

    • Article

      Tears For Fears

      Oct 30, 2020

      Tears For Fears
      6 min read

    • Article

      Craic Addicts

      Sep 14, 2023

      Craic Addicts
      12 min read

    • Article

      Amon Düül II

      Feb 18, 2022

      Amon Düül II
      10 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder

    4/5

    7 ratings5 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      Recommended This is the 2nd book of the series, but it is easy to follow along as a stand alone book. Lisa, Nilly and Doctor Proctor’s embark on a time travelling adventure into the past to find love. The importance of friendship comes up several times throughout the book. “We know that when friends promise never to stop helping each other, one plus one plus one is much more than three.” Doctor Proctor has been in love with Juliette Margarine for years. She was forced to marry Claude Cliché, who runs the mob in Paris. Readers will get to meet Napoleon just before the battle of Waterloo, Joan of Arc, and see the 1969 Tour de France, along with a few other famous figures. Lisa and Nilly try to find Doctor Proctor by using his special time-traveling bathtub and the special time soap. There is not a lot of Time Soap left, so they have to be careful with how much they use. They are also not allowed to change history. The end of the story proves to readers that love and friendship will get you through the tough time in life.I was very skeptical when I first started this book. It’s definitely very silly, but writing is very well done and descriptive. The fartonaut powder will certainly appeal to children who giggle every time the hear the word “fart.” Fartonaut powder has to be ingested and it will launch you like a rocket, perfect for quick getaways. But it’s a great hook for reluctant readers. There is lots of humor woven into the story; like how the inbred thugs who work for Claude Cliché come from Innèbrede, Provence. Overall, this book surprised me and it turned out to be a fun, yet crazy, adventure. This book is a translation from Norwegian, but I don’t think kids will notice. I think this book would be a good fit for an IB school that has a Middle Years Program. It is an international author (for US schools) and there are a lot of European cities and references, that students will get a more global perspective from reading this fiction book. It has a pretty high level vocabulary, so I don’t think it would be a good choice for struggling readers. I think it would also be a good choice for reluctant boy readers, although girls would enjoy it too. There might be some objection to the title in some communities, but it’s middle school humor. I think it is appropriate for both school and public libraries.
    • 3/5
      Originally published in Norway as Doktor Proktors prumpepulver, this amusing middle grade novel, the first in a series of adventures featuring the titular Doctor Proctor and his two young friends, draws upon the perennially popular kind of potty humor that has made titles such as The Adventures of Captain Underpants, The Story of the Little Mole Who Went in Search of Whodunit and The Gas We Pass: The Story of Farts so successful. Opening in Oslo - "the very small capital city of a very small country called Norway" - it details the coming of pint-sized Nilly to Cannon Street, where he befriends his neighbors Lisa, whose best friend has recently moved away, and Doctor Proctor, a mad-scientist type forever inventing new things. When Doctor Proctor's latest experiment produces two amazing powders, one that creates a loud but odorless fart, the other which produces a fart so powerful that it propels the person farting into the stratosphere, the three friends are pleased and excited. Nilly and Lisa see the first powder as a way to make friends at school, and to raise money - what kid wouldn't want to buy special fart powder?!? - while the Professor hopes that the second powder will allow him to win back his long-lost love, by making him a famous inventor. Things are rarely as simple as we'd like them to be, however, and the nefarious Trane family - obnoxious Hummer-driving Mr. Trane, and his two bully sons, Truls and Trym - soon interferes, going so far as to have Nilly and Doctor Proctor locked up in the city's most feared jail cell, the Dungeon of the Dead, while they set out to steal the farting powders. Can Nilly and the doctor escape in time to foil their plot? Or will Lisa, left behind on Cannon Street, be able to deal with the crisis on her own...? Chosen as our January selection over in The International Children's Book Club to which I belong, in which we read a children's book from a different country each month, Doctor Proctor's Farting Powder is the debut children's book from celebrated Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbø. It is an entertaining tale, with plenty of funny flatulence to keep young readers amused, and a humorous self deprecation - the constant references to Norway being such a small country, the mention of the "almost famous" annual cannon salute to the Norwegian king ("who didn't rule over enough for it to amount to anything"), the never-quite-on-time or in-tune marching bands that perform on Independence Day (Norway Constitution Day) - that will please adult readers. I can't say that it is destined to become a personal favorite, but I enjoyed the reading experience, and would consider reading the sequel, Bubble in the Bathtub.
    • 4/5
      When Lisa’s best friend moves from Norway across the world, she prepares herself for an unpleasant school year. Of course, that’s before Nilly, the smallest red-headed boy she’s ever seen, moves in next door. Nilly, a courageous, outspoken boy, quickly befriends both Lisa and Doctor Proctor, a pleasantly mad scientist who lives on the other side of Nilly’s new house. Doctor Proctor, a frustrated inventor who never seems to invent anything quite useful enough for anyone, finds Nilly’s creativity a helpful asset to his inventions, especially his latest one – Fart Powder.
    • 3/5
      Reason for Reading: Next in the series.Lisa and Nilly receive a postcard from Doctor Proctor in Paris, France with an 1888 French stamp on it. The card is written in code. When they have figured out the message, they realise Dr. Proctor has gone back in history to rescue his beloved Juliette Margarine and now he needs their help. So the two pack a few supplies including a baggie of Fart Powder, jump in the bathtub and set off for Paris 1888. Things get mixed up and Nilly and Lisa end up in separate places and the two of them travel through French history sometimes meeting up with Doctor Proctor or Juliette Margarine. They visit an early Tour de France race, Joan of Arc, Napoleon, the Battle of Waterloo and Gustave Eiffel. But all the while they are being tracked by Dr. Proctor's former assistant, now evil, who wishes revenge against him.I enjoyed this story and thought it was fun. I enjoyed the historical sidetracks and the tongue in cheek jokes about the historical figures. The book has various big humor scenes and Nilly and Lisa are a pleasure, just as they were in the first book. However, I do have some issues with this second book in the series. Both books are recommended by the publisher for ages 8-12 and the first book is certainly within that age range and would even make a great read aloud for ages 5-7. This book, however, is written for a different audience. The older end of the age range, say 10-12. The silly goofy humour is more subtle and not so obvious, if one doesn't know who the historical figures are or about the time periods the fun is going to be lost on the reader and finally, the grown-up love story between Doctor Proctor and Juliette Margarine (while very low key) is going to turn off some boy readers. I know my son would flip at all the times the word "love" is used. I won't be passing this one onto my son for bedtime story reading as I know it's not his type of book, at all. Myself, I'm glad I read it and did enjoy it, though I wish it was more like the first book. A third book has already been written in Norway, so we can expect another coming to North America sometime in the future and I will be reading it, hoping for a return of the more farcical storyline of "Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder". Fortunately, the book does not rely on any events from the first book for its plot, though some events are summarized, and they can be read independently of each other.
    • 5/5
      Proving that some humor is universal, this Norwegian import is a romp worthy of all the comparisons to Roald Dahl that I've read in other reviews. Tiny Nilly moves to a new neighborhood in Oslo and discovers that his neighbor, Doctor Proctor, is a bit of a nutty professor who invents wacky, seemingly useless stuff. Like an industrial-strength fart powder that doesn't smell and can hurl a human into the atmosphere. Enter the villains, a set of twin boys named Truls and Trym and their Hummer driving father who plot to steal the powder and sell it to NASA before the good doctor can. And just because this sort of premise isn't weird enough there is a man-eating snake in the sewers and the problem of there being no gunpowder to set off the cannons on Norwegian Independence Day. Oh yeah, it'll all come together in the end. If the subject of farting as an integral part of the narrative turns you off, if it would prevent you from enjoying a funny and engaging narrative, then that's a shame. While I certainly don't condone gratuitous use of potty humor to engage young readers we have, for better or worse, lost those days where a story like this could be told about belching or something more innocent. In fact if I think too hard about this there's a quite bit of The Absent Minded Professor in this story, which makes it hardly the most original idea. But Nesbo keeps things light and, uh, airy, and fills the story with bits of the preposterous that make it genuinely funny.Like flushing poor Nilly down a toilet so he can escape a prison cell and swim (yes, swim) through raw sewage in order to escape, but becomes swallowed by the boa that lives there. And there's Nilly, watching as the snake's digestive juices dissolve the rubber on his shoes, accepting his fate and not the least bit frantic (maybe a little nervous)... until he notices something promising about some of the other contents in the snake's stomach. Without giving too much away, Nilly does indeed escape and Nesbo gives this image of a snake flying out the sewer drain and flailing around the skies above Oslo's harbor like a giant balloon quickly deflating.Nesbo has, until recently, been an award-winning writer of detective fiction in Norway and this is his first foray into children's literature. Normally I get a hinky feeling when I hear about successful adult writers tapping the children's market because sometimes it feels like the author is trading on their name, and the publishers are simply going with a known quantity over seeking out quality. That isn't the case here as Nesbo clearly knows how to entertain the audience with clever, goofy humor. And I sincerely hope that the second book, Doctor Proctor and the Time Bathtub, manages to find its way to translation soon.ALA question: Could this be a contender for the Mildred L. Batchelder award, or is it not serious enough?