Education
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.
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.
She died in 1984. Just Maine and In the Forest are both Caldecott Honor books The black-and-white charcoal illustrations in Just Maine "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 Maine, says Georgiou, is "a tender little tale, delicately illustrated in fragile pastels that echo the quiet mood of the story." Ets also transcribed the autobiography Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant.