stories collection Les Amours du potier, Lois Marie Sutton deems that, although war affects the plots of many of "all (those) delightful thirteen stories", "it is the light-hearted plot that Gamarra maneuvers best" and that "as in his previous publications, (the author) shows himself to be a master delineator of the life of the average peasant and employee." In 1961, Pierre Gamarra received the for L'Aventure du Serpent à Plumes and in 1985, the SGDL Grand Prize for his novel Le Fleuve Palimpseste. Pierre Gamarra died in Argenteuil on 20 May 2009, leaving a substantial body of work, not yet translated into English for the most part. The Encyclopædia Britannica sees in him a "delightful practitioner with notable drollery and high technical skills" in the art of children's poetry and children's stories. His poems and fables are well known by French schoolchildren. Selection of works Literature for the youth Stories Les Vacances de tonton 36 (2006) Moustache et ses amis de toutes les couleurs (2005) New edition of Moustache et ses amis (1974) Douze tonnes de diamant (1978) L'Aventure du Serpent à plumes, Prize for the Youth 1961 Berlurette trilogy: Berlurette contre Tour Eiffel (1961) Le Trésor de Tricoire (1959) Le Mystère de la Berlurette (1957) La Rose des Karpathes, (1955) The Bridge on the River Clarinette in Cricket: the magazine for children, vol. 2 No. 11, (La Salle, Illinois) 1975, (p. 22-29) – illustrated by Marilyn Hafner, translated by Paulette Henderson Meet your author (op. cit. pp. 30–33), Paulette Henderson Fables collections Salut, Monsieur de La Fontaine (2005), Frédéric Devienne, La Mandarine et le Mandarin (1970) Poetry Mon cartable et autres poèmes à réciter (2006) Des mots pour une maman (1984) Voici des maisons (1979) Les Mots enchantés (1952) 'My schoolbag', in Berthe Mouchette Celebration, Melbourne Alliance française (2019), p. 74-75 CD Les Aventuriers de l'alphabet (2002) Adaptations Les Fariboles de Bolla (1981), , original Swedish text and by Gunilla Bergström, Novels L'Empreinte de l'ours (2010), De Borée (Sayat) Les Coqs de minuit (new ed. including Rosalie Brousse) 2009, De Borée Le Maître d'école (new ed. including La Femme de Simon) 2008, De Borée Les Lèvres de l’été (1986) Le Fleuve palimpseste PUF (1985) ; SGDL Prize for the novel Cantilène occitane (1979) La Femme et le Fleuve (1952) L’assassin a le prix Goncourt (1951) Les Enfants du pain noir (1950) La Maison de feu (1948), Éditions La Baconnière