In 1924, Hall earned a Ph.B. from the University of Chicago, where she studied at the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy.
In 1929 or 1930 (the date is uncertain), Hall married Dr. Harold N. Ets, a physician, and moved to New York. Five years later, while studying at Columbia University children's interpretations and responses to art, she commenced her career as an author and illustrator of children's books. As an author, Ets cultivated her keen ability to observe and to listen to young children. Her books reflect the interplay, frequently couched in humor, between imagination and reality in the minds of youngsters. The characters are as mischievous as they are good. Ets usually writes for the preschool child, but the length and depth of some of her books make them appropriate for an older audience as well. While only six of her books remain in print in the early 1980s, when first published they were heralded as much-needed additions to children's literature.
In Mister Penny (1935) a man cares for animals on his dilapidated farm. Limpy, a horse who idolizes his racing kin; Mooloo, an overcontent cow; a sheep; a pig; a hen; and a rooster all respond to the gentleness of their master by using their ingenuity to replant a neighbor's garden they have razed.
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