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Marie Hall Ets

Marie Hall Ets

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22 featured booksMarie Hall Ets

Marie Hall Ets (December 16, 1895 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – January 17, 1984 in Inverness, Florida) was an American writer and illustrator who is best known for children's picture books. She attended Lawrence College, and in 1918, Ets journeyed to Chicago where she became a social worker at the Chicago Commons, a settlement house on the northwest side of the city. There she met Ines Cassettari, an immigrant from Italy who worked at the settlement. Ets transcribed Cassettari's autobiography, and the book was later published as Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant. In 1960 Ets won the annual Caldecott Medal for her illustrations of Nine Days to Christmas, whose text she wrote with Aurora Labastida. She died in 1984. Just Me and In the Forest are both Caldecott Honor books. The black-and-white charcoal illustrations in Just Me "almost take on the appearance of woodcuts" and are similar in style to the illustrations in In the Forest. Constantine Georgiou comments in Children and Their Literature that Ets' "picture stories and easy-to-read books" (along with those of Maurice Sendak) "are filled with endearing and quaint human touches, putting them at precisely the right angle to life in early childhood." Play With Me, says Georgiou, is "a tender little tale, delicately illustrated in fragile pastels that echo the quiet mood of the story."

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Gilberto and the Wind
Representative edition published 2005
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Rosa
Representative edition published 1999
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Play With Me
Representative edition published 1999
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Nine days to Christmas
Representative edition published 1991
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Akachan no hanashi
Representative edition published 1982
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Just me
Representative edition published 1978
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In the forest
Representative edition published 1978
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Jay bird
Representative edition published 1974
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Elephant in a well
Representative edition published 1972
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The story of a baby
Representative edition published 1969
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Talking without Words
Representative edition published 1968
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Bad boy, good boy
Representative edition published 1967
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Automobiles for mice
Representative edition published 1964
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Mister Penny's circus
Representative edition published 1961
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Cow's party
Representative edition published 1958
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Mister Penny's Race Horse
Representative edition published 1956
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Another day
Representative edition published 1956
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Beasts and nonsense
Representative edition published 1952
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Mr. T. W. Anthony Woo
Representative edition published 1951
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Little Old Automobile
Representative edition published 1948
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Oley, the sea monster
Representative edition published 1947
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Mister Penny
Representative edition published 1935
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