Review: Doctor Proctors fart powder by Jo Nesbo

Title/author: Doctor Proctors fart powder by Jo Nesbo

Originally published/ year published: December 2009 by Simon & Schuster's Alladin

Genre: adventurous, children's, humor

How I got this book: library

Why I read this book: the book was recommended to me by a teacher

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

eleven year old Nilly is new to the neighbourhood, but is quick to make friends: DoctorProctor who is an eccentric professor who invents wacky potions and powders, and brainy Lisa who is always teased by the twin terrors Twyn and Truls.All is good farty fun when 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 50 cents a bag.

but when doctor Proctors creates an industrial-strenght version that can send people outer space, the kids must go to great lenghts to protect the invention and keep it out of the hands of the neighbors, who want to use the powder for evil purpouses

Review:

the blur already says a lot about the story of the book! I never knew before this book Jo Nesbo also wrote children's books, so this one came as a total suprise. I know he writes adult thrillers but as I said this one was quite the suprise. although he focuses on the adult books he wrote this one pretty well. I even heard there were more books in this series and that it has been translated into many languages.

In the book Nesbo's character comes to front, he writes very funny passages between the kids and the professor and has great one liners! the character of the kids is very curious. they want to be involved in everything and they love to find out new things. that's exactly what kids are these days! I can imagine that children will relate to the charachters in the book.

then we have Doctor Proctor, he is a very funny and insecure man who just wants to put his ideas into reality. He likes to make the weirdest potions and powder and he loves it! As a kid, I would have found this the most perfect dad in the world! :P although in the book the man is a Professor.
The book takes place in a city in Norway (the country Nesbo is from) and several Norwegian customs have been put into the book by him.

The book was quite easy to read and didn't have that many pages, which makes it the perfect evening read for kids. once you start the book you'll be sucked in from the start.

although I enjoyed the book very much I kinda felt that it wasn't the read I would recommend every kid. It had some quite rude words in it and some passages were maybe a little too hard to read for certain ages. In the end Nesbo is a thriller writer and not a childrens book writer. But however, I think Nesbo did a great job on writing this very exciting and funny book!

I gave the book 3 out of 5 stars, just because the book wasn't quite my cup of tea. 

#FridayReads 06-11

Happy weekend everyone!

this friday i'm back with a new fridayreads post. 

I'm still not finished with 'life and death' by Stephanie Meyer and I still need to start 'Mees kees- a naughty class' by Mirjam Oldenhave. 

Last week I luckily did finish 'waiting for winter' by Sebastian Meschenmoser (which I loooooved!) 

This weekend and coming week I'll hopefully finish the books of past week :) and maybe i'll choose a new picture book, but I'm not sure yet which one and if I'll have time for it :) 

Which books will you be reading? 

Fantastic beasts and where to find them photos!

So, yesterday I came home from school and was pretty busy for most of the day. after getting a text of having failed my exam I went on facebook. And guess what? I saw an article by Entertainment weekly showing some pictures from Fantastic beasts and where to find them!

Look at Eddie Redmayne! He's so fab!

Basically, J.K Rowling herself wrote parts of the film! The Film will be inspired by Harry Potters textbook of the same name and will feature the book's fictuous author, Newt Scamander. In the book Professor Dumbledore has written the introduction but the rest of it will be written by 'Newt Scamander'.

I just think this new film will be an amazing addition to the die-hard Harry Potter fans, and maybe also will inspire young kids to start watching the Harry Potter movies and read the books. A triggering new introduction to the new generation!

Of course I'll show you the rest of the photo's showed in the Entertainment weekly article as well :)

October wrap-up and November TBR

For the first time in a very long time I read several books again this month. for my feeling I had a great reading month and enjoyed some of the books a lot!

In October I read the following books:
- Doctor Proctor's fart powder by Jo Nesbo

- Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
  Review: Hollow city
- Prisoner of night and fog by Anne Blankman

  Review: Prisoner of night and fog
-Waiting for winter by Sebastian Meschenmoser

out of my Octorber reads I enjoyed Prisoner of night and fod and waiting for winter most! 

so now my list of books I want to read in November:
- Life and Death by Stephanie Meyer

- Mees kees - a naughty class by Mirjam Oldenhave
- have you seen my sister? by Joke van leeuwen

- The iron knight by Julie Kagawa

- The Heir by Keira Cass

I may not be able to read all the books mentioned above but I'll try. I'm so excited to read the Heir by Keira cass. the selection trilogy is one of my all time favorite book series!

what have you read and will you be reading?

November YA book releases

October was a great release month. Books such as :
- Carry on by Rainbow Rowell
- Illuminae by Amie Kaufman
- life and death by Stephanie Meyer
- Ice like fire by Sara Raasch
were released. overall, this month was the best book month in ages!

We also this month have some great books to be released.

The one most of the people are excited for will be 'Winter', book 4 in the lunar chronicles series by Marissa Meyer. The story follows princess Winter and she will fight against Levana together with Cinder Scarlett and Cress.
I've read this book Will be huge, 832 pages in the hardcover version! A lovely suprise for all the die hard fans out there. Winter will be released on November 10th.

The next book on the list is 'November 9' by Colleen Hoover. November 9 will be released on November 10th. The book will be one of the many Colleen Hoover love stories she has written. It follows 2 people, Fallon and Ben and I heard the plot twist in this book will be amazing!

The 3rd popular book that will be released is 'Ten thousand skies above you' by Claudia Gray. This will be book 2 in the Firebird series. This book will be released November 3rd. It goes on after the first book and it's already a very good 2nd book to the series. On goodreads the book has already 4.39 out of 5 stars, it's a sign!

The 4th and last book I will be talking about is 'Half Truths' by Sally Green. This book is a pré half bad book, which means the story in this book takes place before the 1st book in the trilogy called 'Half bad'. The book follows Gabriel's story and his arrival in Switserland where he seeks help in recovering his magical powers. I believe this book will have a great Content for all the Half bad fans! This book will be released November 3rd.