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Marie Hall Ets

16 December 1895 - 17 January 1984

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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  • Cover of: Akachan no hanashi: [A story of a baby]
    First published in 1982 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable

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    First published in 1974 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: Elephant in a well.
    First published in 1972 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: Rosa: the life of an Italian immigrant
    First published in 1970 4 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: Talking without words: I can. Can you?

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    First published in 1967 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: Just me
    First published in 1965 11 editions in 2 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition justme00etsm

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  • Cover of: Gilberto and the wind
    First published in 1963 28 editions in 4 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition gilbertoyelveint00mari

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  • Cover of: Mister Penny's circus.
    First published in 1961 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: Nine Days to Christmas
    First published in 1959 18 editions in 2 languages — 3 previewable Cover of edition ninedaystochrist00auro Cover of edition nuevediasparanav0000etsm

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    First published in 1958 2 editions in 1 language

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  • Cover of: Mister Penny's race horse.
    First published in 1956 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: Play with me
    First published in 1955 17 editions in 4 languages — 3 previewable Cover of edition playwithme00etsm Cover of edition playwithme00etsm

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  • Cover of: Another day
    First published in 1953 3 editions in 2 languages

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  • Cover of: Beasts and nonsense.
    First published in 1952 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: Mr. T. W. Anthony Woo: the story of a cat and a dog and a mouse.

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  • Cover of: Little old automobile: story and pictures.
    First published in 1948 4 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable

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    First published in 1947 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: In the forest: story and pictures
    First published in 1944 14 editions in 2 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition inforest0000etsm

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