Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
by:
Lynne Jonell (author)
Emmy was a good girl.At least she tried very hard to be good. She did her homework without being told. She ate all her vegetables, even the slimy ones. And she never talked back to her nanny, Miss Barmy, although it was almost impossible to keep quiet, some days.She really was a little too good....
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Emmy was a good girl.At least she tried very hard to be good. She did her homework without being told. She ate all her vegetables, even the slimy ones. And she never talked back to her nanny, Miss Barmy, although it was almost impossible to keep quiet, some days.She really was a little too good. Which is why she liked to sit by the Rat. The Rat was not good at all . . .Hilarious, inventive, and irresistably rodent-friendly, this is a fantastic first novel from acclaimed picture book author Lynne Jonell.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780805081503 (080508150X)
ASIN: 080508150X
Publish date: 2007-08-07
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Fun story of a girl whose life becomes one big adventure when she gets bitten by a rat and can then suddenly hear him talk. She decides to set the rat free from his classroom cage and then things get kind of crazy. One bite from the rat and you can understand what he says, a second bite and you shri...
This was fun. I liked the interplay between Emmy and her various friends, rodent and human. They were all vivid characters in their various ways, and different one from the other - the narcoleptic professor and the sweet gentle Endearmouse and the vainglorious Shrinking Rat and the popular jock wh...
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