Doris Gates

Awards da liyafar 
An san littattafan Gates da yawa tare da kyaututtuka.Blue Willow ya kasance daya daga cikin masu tsere don Medal na Newbery na shekara-shekara,  an sanya shi cikin jerin lambar yabo ta Lewis Carroll Shelf a cikin 1961,kuma an naɗa shi ɗayan Mafi kyawun Littattafai na Shekara ta Horn Book Magazine.Hakanan ta sami lambar yabo ta Commonwealth Club of California Book Award.Ra'ayin Sarah da The Cat da Mrs.Cary kuma an ba su suna Horn Book Best Books of the Year,  kuma an ba Little Vic lambar yabo ta William Allen White Award ta 'yan makaranta na Kansas.

An yaba da aikin Gates musamman saboda yanayinsa da kuma sanin wurinsa. Marubutan yara na ƙarni na ashirin sun yaba da yadda ta yi amfani da abubuwan labarin al'ada da ma'anar tsari mai ƙarfi. Chevalier, Tracy (editor), Twentieth-Century Children's Writers, St. James Press, 1989, pp. 379; A cewar wani mai bita"Gates ya rubuta da gaskiya, yana haɗa ƙarfin layin labari tare da ingantattun haruffa,ingantattun saitunan, da jigogi na sakamako."Mai bitar ta ci gaba da cewa kyakykyawan halayenta da kuma kula da halayenta ya sa littattafanta su zama"guduma mai kyau ga adabin yaran Amurka". Cech, John (editor), Dictionary of Literary Biographies: American Writers for Children, 1900-1960, Gale Research, 1983, volume 22, pp. 209;