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Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder: Time Travel Bath Bomb

by Jo Nesbø

Interest age: 7+
Reading age: 8+

Published by Simon & Schuster Children's Books, 2011

  • Adventure
  • Around the world
  • Funny
  • Historical

About this book

Doctor Proctor invented Fart Powder. In this sequel he uses the Time-Travel Bath Bomb to go back in time and save his first love from an evil villain.

His plans go awry and he sends for two of his friends - the children Nilly and Lisa - to help him succeed.

They are followed by the apparently evil Raspa, a woman with a squeaking roller skate on the end of her wooden leg.

As the plot twists and turns our characters affect history as we know it by visiting Napoleon before Waterloo, Joan of Arc in her prison cell and Eiffel before he designed his tower.

A surreal and comic adventure with cartoon characters, competitive farting and silly names.

About the author

Jo Nesbø is the most successful Norwegian author of all time. His adult novels have sold millions of copies worldwide. His children's books have also received widespread acclaim: his Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder series was translated into more than 35 languages. The first book of the Doctor Proctor series has sold more copies than any children's book debut in Norwegian history. It has been made into a live-action movie which will be released in the UK in 2015.

Before becoming an author Jo played football for Norway's premier league team Molde. But his dream of playing professionally for Tottenham Hotspur was dashed due to an injury he suffered at the age of 18. After three years of military service he attended business school and formed the band Di Derre ('Them There'). Their second album topped the charts in Norway. But he continued working as a financial analyst, crunching numbers during the day and gigging at night. It wasn't until he was 37 that Jo became a published author.

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