Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder

Nilly is new to the neighbourhood, but is quick to make friends: Doctor Proctor, an eccentric professor; and Lisa, who is teased by the twin terrors Truls and Trym. Nilly and Lisa help Doctor Proctor develop his latest invention, a powder that makes you fart. The powder makes Nilly and Lisa very popular at school when they sell it for fifty cents a bag. And they get revenge on Truls and Trym by giving them an extra-strength dose of fart powder that shoots them up into a tree!It’s all good farty fun. That is, until someone steals the industrial-strength fart powder. Now Doctor Proctor’s ticket to fame is in the hands of an enemy with evil intentions...

The title promises young readers a story with a bang, and it delivers. -- Booklist

Jo Nesbø is the most successful Norwegian author of all time with 9 million copies sold. His books are published in 41 different languages around the world, and he is widely recognised as one of Europe's foremost crime writers. Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder was Jo's first children's book. A veteran of stage and screen, award-winning actress Miriam Margolyes has achieved success on both sides of the Atlantic. Miriam won the BAFTA Best Supporting Actress award in 1993 for The Age of Innocence and a Sony Radio Award for Best Actress on Radio in 1993 for her unabridged recording of Oliver Twist. She was the voice of the Matchmaker in Mulan and Fly, the mother dog, in Babe. Miriam was Professor Sprout in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and will appear in the very last in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Miriam also has the distinction of being one of AudioFile magazine's Golden Voices.

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