Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children

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Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children
Awarded for	Quality spoken word performances aimed at children
Country	United States
Presented by	National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First award	1994
Final award	2011
Website	grammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, ^[1] to recording artists for works containing quality "spoken word" performances aimed at children. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position." ^[2]

The award was first presented to Audrey Hepburn and producers Deborah Raffin and Michael Viner in 1994 for the album Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales . Its last winners were the artists, producers, audio engineers, and audio mixers who contributed to the album Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies in 2011, when it was announced the award would be combined with the Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children to form the Grammy Award for Best Children's Album. ^[3]

Tom Chapin holds the record for the most wins in this category, with a total of three. Artists Bill Harley and Jim Dale, along with audio engineer David Correia, and producers Arnold Cardillo and David Rapkin, and audio engineer-musical director Rory Young, are the others to win the award more than once, all winning it twice. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has also won the award, along with Mikhail Gorbachev and Sophia Loren, for their work on the album Wolf Tracks and Peter and the Wolf at the 2003 installment of the awards.

Recipients

Audrey Hepburn, 1994 winner

Patrick Stewart, 1996 winner

Kate Winslet, 2000 winner

2002, 2003, and 2005 award winner Tom Chapin

2004 award winner Bill Clinton

2011 award winner Dame Julie Andrews

1990s

Year	Performing Artist(s)	Work	Producers
1994 [4]	Audrey Hepburn	Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales	Deborah Raffin and Michael Viner
John Cleese	Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (Dr. Seuss)	Sharon Lerner
Danny Glover and Dr. John	Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion	Dr. John, Ken Hoin, and Doris Wilhousky
Sesame Street Muppets	The Muppet Christmas Carol Story Album	Ed Mitchell
Various artists	Aladdin Sound and Story Theater	Ted Kryczko
1995 [5]	Various artists [a]	The Lion King Read-Along	Randy Thornton and Ted Kryczko
Amy Grant	The Creation	Bela Fleck, Brian Gleeson, and Craig Rogers
John Hurt	Aladdin and the Magic Lamp	Brian Gleeson, Mickey Hart, and C.W. Rogers
Garrison Keillor	Johnny Appleseed	Ken Hoin and Mark O'Connor
Various artists	The Magic School Bus: Fun With Sound	John Wynne
1996 [6]	Patrick Stewart	Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf	Dan Broatman and Martin Sauer
Morgan Freeman	Follow the Drinking Gourd	Taj Mahal, John McCally, and Doris Wilhousky
David Holt and Bill Mooney	Why the Dog Chases the Cat: Great Animal Stories	David Holt and Bill Mooney
B.B. King and Denzel Washington	John Henry	B.B. King and Doris Wilhousky
Winona Ryder	The Diary of a Young Girl	Lauren Krenzel
1997 [7]	David Holt	Stellaluna	Steven Heller, David Holt, and Virginia Callaway
Melissa Manchester	The Wonderful O (James Thurber)	Deborah Raffin
Carl Reiner	The Prince and the Pauper (Mark Twain)	Victoria Preminger
Robin Williams	Jumanji (Chris Van Allsburg)	Susan Dudnick Boer
Michael York	Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)	Shauna Zurbrugg
1998 [8]	Charles Kuralt	Winnie-the-Pooh (A. A. Milne)	John McElroy
Long John Baldry	The Original Story of Winnie-the-Pooh
Gabriel Byrne	The Star-Child and the Nightingale & the Rose
Eric Idle	The Quite Remarkable Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat
1999 [9] [10]	Various artists [b]	The Children's Shakespeare	Dan Musselman and Stefan Rudnicki
Miguel Ferrer	Disney's The Lion King II: Simba's Pride Read-Along	Randy Thornton
June Foray	Disney's Mulan Read and Sing Along	Ted Kryczko and Randy Thornton
Bill Harley	Weezie and the Moon Pies	Bill Harley
Sharon Kennedy	The Patchwork Quilt and Other Stories From Around the World	Bing Broderick, Kennedy and Steve Netsky
Sesame Street Muppets	Elmo's New Laugh	Ed Mitchell

2000s

Year	Performing Artist(s)	Work	Producers
2000 [11]	Graham Greene , Wynton Marsalis, and Kate Winslet	Listen to the Storyteller	David Frost and Steven Epstein
Jim Dale	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	Kathy Hale
Bill Harley	The Battle of Mad Scientists and Other Tales of Survival	Debbie Block and Bill Harley
Hayden Panettiere	A Bug's Life Read-Along	Randy Thornton and Ted Kryczko
Sesame Street Muppets	Let's Eat!	Ed Mitchell
2001 [12]	Jim Dale	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	David Rapkin
James Earl Jones	The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
Liam Neeson	The Polar Express
Paul Newman	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Susan Sarandon	Dinosongs: Poems to Celebrate a T. Rex Named Sue
2002 [13]	Tom Chapin	Mama Don't Allow	Arnold Cardillo, producer. Rory Young, audio engineer
Tim Curry	A Series of Unfortunate Events – Book 1: The Bad Beginning
Vanessa Redgrave and Stephen Fry	Oscar Wilde: The Selfish Giant & The Nightingale And The Rose
Various artists	Dr. Seuss – How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Ruth Westheimer	Timeless Tales and Music of Our Time
2003 [14]	Tom Chapin	There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Jamie Lee Curtis	The Jamie Lee Curtis Audio Collection
John Lithgow and various artists	Ogden Nash's the Christmas That Almost Wasn't
Jerry Seinfeld	Halloween
Various artists	Monsters, Inc. DVD Read-Along
2004 [15]	Bill Clinton , Mikhail Gorbachev, and Sophia Loren	Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf/Beintus: Wolf Tracks	Wilhelm Hellweg, producer. Jean-Marie Geijsen, audio engineer.
Jim Broadbent	Winnie-the-Pooh
Jim Dale	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Eric Idle	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Carl Reiner	Tell Me a Scary Story
2005 [16]	Tom Chapin	The Train They Call the City of New Orleans	Arnold Cardillo, producer. Rory Young, audio engineer.
Marin Alsop	The Story of Classical Music
John Lithgow	The Emperor's New Clothes
Various artists	Green Eggs and Ham and Other Servings of Dr. Seuss
Elaine Stritch	The Best Halloween Ever
2006 [17]	Various artists	Marlo Thomas & Friends: Thanks & Giving All Year Long	Christopher B. Cerf and Marlo Thomas, producers. Nick Cipriano, audio engineer.
Jim Dale	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Roy Dotrice	Pooh's Heffalump
Ray Romano	Raymie, Dickie, and the Bean: Why I Love and Hate My Brothers
Various artists	A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning	David Rapkin
2007 [18]	Bill Harley	Blah Blah Blah: Stories About Clams, Swamp Monsters, Pirates and Dogs	David Correia, audio engineer
Jim Dale	Peter Pan
John McCutcheon	Christmas in the Trenches
Lynn Redgrave	The Witches
Various artists	Disney's Little Einsteins Musical Missions
2008 [19]	Jim Dale	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	Orli Moscowitz and David Rapkin, producers
Milbre Burch	Making the Heart Whole Again: Stories for a Wounded World
Diane Ferlatte	Wickety Whack – Brer Rabbit Is Back
Toni Morrison	Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?
Stanley Tucci and Meryl Streep	The One and Only Shrek
2009 [20]	Bill Harley	Yes to Running! Bill Harley Live	Daniel P. Dauterive, producer
Buck Howdy and BB	Around the Campfire
Gwyneth Paltrow	Brown Bear and Friends
Dean Pitchford	The Big One-Oh
Tony Shalhoub	The Cricket in Times Square

2010s

Year	Performing Artist(s)	Work	Producers
2010 [21]	Buck Howdy	Aaaaah! Spooky, Scary Stories & Songs	Buck Howdy, producer
Ed Asner	Scat
Harlan Ellison	Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
David Hyde Pierce	The Phantom Tollbooth
Dean Pitchford	Captain Nobody
Various artists	Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
2011 [22]	Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton	Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies	Michele McGonigle, producer.
Selma Blair	Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
Bill Harley	The Best Candy in the Whole World
Emma Thompson	Nanny McPhee Returns
Various artists	Healthy Food for Thought: Good Enough to Eat

See also

• Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album

References

1. Including Robert Guillaume as the narrator.
2. (Jim Belushi, Robert Davi, Tate Donovan, Linda Hamilton, Patrick MacNee, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga)

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External links

• Official site of the Grammy Awards Archived May 7, 2014, at the Wayback Machine