Marie Hall Ets
(1895 - 1984)
Marie Hall Ets (December 16, 1895 -January 17, 1984) is an American writer and illustrator best known for children’s picture books.
She attended Lawrence College, and in 1918, Mrs. Ets journeyed to Chicago where she became a social worker at the Chicago Commons, a settlement house on the northwest side of the city. In 1960 she won the annual Caldecott Medal for her illustrations of Nine Days to Christmas, whose text she wrote with Aurora Labastida. Her Just Me and In the Forest are both Caldecott Honor books.
Bibliography
In the Forest (1944)
A boy with his new horn is followed by animals as he walks through the forest.
Little Old Automobile (1948)
A naughty little automobile drives down the road and runs over anything that stands in its way, until it meets a train.
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Aurora Labastida
Mister Penny (1956)
Mr. Penny's lazy barnyard pets steal into a neighbor's garden and wreak havoc. But when their good master is threatened by the neighbor, they mend their ways and work hard laying eggs, giving milk, plowing the garden and cutting the grass.
Aurora Labastida
Nine Days to Christmas (1959)
Ceci is anxiously waiting to select a pinĚata for her first posada, the special Mexican Christmas party.
Aurora Labastida
Aurora Labastida
Oley the Sea Monster (1947)
A homesick seal, released by an aquarium keeper into a lake instead of being killed as ordered, leads to rumors of a great sea monster.
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Aurora Labastida