Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children

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, 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."

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.

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

thumb|right|130px|[[Audrey Hepburn, 1994 winner]]

thumb|right|130px|[[Patrick Stewart, 1996 winner]]

thumb|right|130px|[[Kate Winslet, 2000 winner]]

1990s

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! width="50" |Year

! width="250" |Performing Artist(s)

! width="400" |Work

! width="250" |Producers

! scope="row", rowspan=5, align="center"|1994

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" |

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 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

! scope="row", rowspan=5, align="center"|1995

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Various artists

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" |

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 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

! scope="row", rowspan=5, align="center"|1996

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" |

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 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

! scope="row", rowspan=5, align="center"|1997

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" |

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 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

! scope="row", rowspan=4, align="center"|1998

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" |

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 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

! scope="row", rowspan=6, align="center"|1999

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Various artists

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" |

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 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

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! width="50" |Year

! width="250" |Performing Artist(s)

! width="400" |Work

! width="250" |Producers

! scope="row", rowspan=5, align="center"|2000

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | , Wynton Marsalis, and Kate Winslet

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" |

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 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

! scope="row", rowspan=5, align="center"|2001

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" |

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 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

! scope="row", rowspan=5, align="center"|2002

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" |

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 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

! scope="row", rowspan=5, align="center"|2003

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" |

| 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

! scope="row", rowspan=5, align="center"|2004

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | , Mikhail Gorbachev, and Sophia Loren

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" |

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 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

! scope="row", rowspan=5, align="center"|2005

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" |

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 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

! scope="row", rowspan=5, align="center"|2006

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Various artists

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" |

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 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

! scope="row", rowspan=5, align="center"|2007

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" |

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 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

! scope="row", rowspan=5, align="center"|2008

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" |

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 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

! scope="row", rowspan=5, align="center"|2009

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" |

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 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

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! width="50" |Year

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! scope="row", rowspan=6, align="center"|2010

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" |

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 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

! scope="row", rowspan=5, align="center"|2011

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | and Emma Walton Hamilton

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" |

| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | 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

References

General

Specific

External links

Official site of the Grammy Awards

Recipients

1990s

2000s

2010s

See also

References

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