Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat Author:Lynne Jonell Emmy tried hard to be good, but no one seemed to notice except for the Rat. And he was rather sarcastic ... What had happened to make her parents stop caring about her? And why do the kids at school seem to hardly know she exists? Could it have anything to do with Miss Barmy, the nanny who kept forcing Emmy to drink and eat the strangest things?