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The Regina Medal award, established in 1959 and sponsored by the Catholic Library Association, is administered by the Children’s Library Services Section through the Regina Medal Committee at the will of the Catholic Library Association Executive Board. The only criterion for the award is that of excellence. The Regina Medal is awarded annually to a living exemplar of the words of the English poet, Walter de la Mare “only the rarest kind of best in anything can be good enough for the young,” for continued, distinguished contribution to children’s literature without regard to the nature of the contribution.
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To order bookmarks commemorating the Regina Medal, download, fill out, and mail to the CLA using this form: Bookmark Order Form
2013 Regina Medal Winner - Kevin Henkes
The Children's Library Services Section of Catholic Library Association is pleased to announce that noted author and illustrator, Kevin Henkes was named the 2013 Regina Medal Award Winner. Inspired by such illustrators as Crockett Johnson and Garth Williams, Henkes decided at an early age that he would be an artist, and enjoyed frequent visits to the nearby art museum. It was a high school teacher's encouragement of his writing, however, that gave Henkes the idea for his future career.
Past Regina Medal Recipients
2013 Kevin Henkes (website)
2012 Patricia Polacco (website)
2011 Ashley Bryan (read more)
2010 Gail Gibbons (website) (read more)
2009 Lois Ehlert (read more)
2008 Vera B. Williams (read more)
2006 Paul Goble (read more)
2005 Jerry Pinkney (read more)
2004 Susan Hirschman
2003 Jean Craighead George (website)
2002 Charlotte Zolotow (website)
2001 E.L. Konigsburg
2000 Milton Meltzer
1999 Eric Carle (website)
1998 Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack
1997 Eve Bunting
1996 Russell Freedman
1995 Gary Paulsen
1994 Lois Lowry (website)
1993 Chris Van Allsburg
1992 Jane Yolen (website)
1991 Leonard Everett Fisher
1990 Virginia Hamilton
1989 Steven Kellogg (website)
1988 Katherine Paterson (website)
1987 Betsy Byars (website)
1986 Lloyd Alexander
1985 Jean Fritz
1984 Madeleine L′Engle
1983 Thomas Anthony dePaola (website)
1982 Theodor Seuss Geisel
1981 Augusta Baker (website)
1980 Beverly Cleary (website)
1979 Morton Schindel (website)
1978 Scott O'Dell (website)
1977 Marcia Brown (website)
1976 Virginia Haviland
1975 May McNeer and Lynd Ward (website)
1974 Robert McCloskey
1973 Frances Clarke Sayers
1972 Meindert DeJong
1971 Tasha Tudor
1970 Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
1969 Lois Lenski (website)
1968 Marguerite deAngeli (website)
1967 Bertha Mahony Miller
1966 Leo Politi
1965 Ruth Sawyer Durand (website)
1964 May Hill Arbuthnot (website)
1963 Ann Nolan Clark (website)
1962 Frederic G. Melcher (website)
1961 Padraic Colum (website)
1960 Anne Carroll Moore
1959 Eleanor Farjeon (website)
