Regina Medal
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.
Regina Medal bookmark order forms
To order bookmarks commemorating the Regina Medal, download, fill out, and mail to the CLA the following form:
Regina Medal bookmark order form
Regina Medal recipients
- 2010 Gail Gibbons
- 2009 Lois Ehlert (read more)
- 2008 Vera B. Williams (read more)
- 2007 Margaret K. McElderry (read more)
- 2006 Paul Goble (read more)
- 2005 Jerry Pinkney (read more)
- 2004 Susan Hirschman
- 2003 Jean Craighead George
- 2002 Charlotte Zolotow
- 2001 E.L. Konigsburg
- 2000 Milton Meltzer
- 1999 Eric Carle
- 1998 Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack
- 1997 Eve Bunting
- 1996 Russell Freedman
- 1995 Gary Paulsen
- 1994 Lois Lowry
- 1993 Chris Van Allsburg
- 1992 Jane Yolen
- 1991 Leonard Everett Fisher
- 1990 Virginia Hamilton
- 1989 Steven Kellogg
- 1988 Katherine Paterson
- 1987 Betsy Byars
- 1986 Lloyd Alexander
- 1985 Jean Fritz
- 1984 Madeline L�Engle
- 1983 Tomie dePaola
- 1982 Theodor Seuss Geisel
- 1981 Augusta Baker
- 1980 Beverly Cleary
- 1979 Morton Schindel
- 1978 Scott O�Dell
- 1977 Marcia Brown
- 1976 Virginia Haviland
- 1975 May McNeer and Lynd Ward
- 1974 Robert McCloskey
- 1973 Frances Clarke Sayers
- 1972 Meindert De Jong
- 1971 Tasha Tudor
- 1970 Ingri and Edgar Parin D�Aulaire
- 1969 Lois Lenski
- 1968 Marguerite deAngeli
- 1967 Bertha Mahony Miller
- 1966 Leo Politi
- 1965 Ruth Sawyer Durand
- 1964 May Hill Arbuthnot
- 1963 Ann Nolan Clark
- 1962 Frederic G. Melcher
- 1961 Padraic Colum
- 1960 Anne Carroll Moore
- 1959 Eleanor Farjeon
