In 1954 and 1956 he received the Munkácsy Prize. In 1963 he received the Kossuth Prize. In he became a Merited Artist. He also made large wall pictures for the Children’s Town of Fót, the Children Hospital of Miskolc and a kindergarten in Zalaegerszeg. He spent most of his career with book illsutrations. We can see his illustration in more than four hundred books. Many of his books were republished over and over again which shows the actuality of Reich Károly's art.