Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children
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The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children was an honor presented at the Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

s, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for works containing quality "spoken word
Spoken word
Spoken word is a form of poetry that often uses alliterated prose or verse and occasionally uses metered verse to express social commentary. Traditionally it is in the first person, is from the poet’s point of view and is themed in current events....

" performances aimed at children. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc., known variously as The Recording Academy or NARAS, is a U.S. organization of musicians, producers, recording engineers and other recording professionals dedicated to improving the quality of life and cultural condition for music and its...

 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
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. Although modest about her acting ability, Hepburn remains one of the world's most famous actresses of all time, remembered as a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century...

 and producers Deborah Raffin
Deborah Raffin
Deborah Iona Raffin is an American film and television actress.Raffin was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Trudy Marshall, a Brooklyn-born former movie actress, and Phillip Jordan Raffin, a restaurateur and meat/brokerage executive.She appeared in several 1970s Hollywood films...

 and Michael Viner
Michael Viner
Michael Viner was an American film producer and record producer, who later shifted into book publishing and became an innovator in the audiobook field...

 in 1994 for the album Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales
Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales
Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales is a 1992 album featuring classic children's stories read by actress Audrey Hepburn. She was posthumously awarded a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children in 1993....

. Its last winners were the artists, producers, audio engineer
Audio engineering
An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...

s, and audio mixer
Mixing console
In professional audio, a mixing console, or audio mixer, also called a sound board, mixing desk, or mixer is an electronic device for combining , routing, and changing the level, timbre and/or dynamics of audio signals. A mixer can mix analog or digital signals, depending on the type of mixer...

s 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
Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children
The Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children was an honor presented to recording artists for quality children's music albums at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards...

 to form the Grammy Award for Best Children's Album
Grammy Award for Best Children's Album
The Grammy Award for Best Children's Album is a new category in the annual Grammy Awards ceremony from 2012.It combines the previous categories for Best Musical Album for Children and Best Spoken Word Album for Children, which basically means a return to the situation prior to 1994, when there...

.

Tom Chapin
Tom Chapin
Tom Chapin is a Grammy Award-winning American musician, entertainer, singer-songwriter and storyteller.-Biography:Chapin attended State University of New York at Plattsburgh and graduated in 1966. From 1971-1976, he hosted a TV show called Make a Wish...

 and producer David Rapkin
David Rapkin
David Rapkin is a recording engineer, sound designer and audio producer, based in New York.-Career:Rapkin has designed sound on Broadway for Steaming by Nell Dunn, On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson, The Curse Of An Aching Heart by William Alfred, The Wake Of Jamie Foster by Beth Henley and...

 hold the record for the most wins in this category, with a total of three. Artists Bill Harley
Bill Harley
Bill Harley is a children's entertainer and storyteller who has been called "the Mark Twain of contemporary children's music" by Entertainment Weekly. He uses a range of musical styles and appeals to children and adults with quirky, heart-filled lyrics...

 and Jim Dale
Jim Dale
Jim Dale, MBE is an English actor, voice artist, singer and songwriter. He is best known in the United Kingdom for his many appearances in the Carry On series of films and in the US for narrating the Harry Potter audiobook series, for which he received two Grammy Awards, and the ABC series Pushing...

, along with producer Arnold Cardillo and audio engineers David Correia and Rory Young, are the other musicians to win the award more than once, all winning it twice. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

 has also won the award, along with Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the USSR, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991...

 and Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren, OMRI is an Italian actress.In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, along with 21 awards, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance...

, for their work on the album Wolf Tracks and Peter and the Wolf
Wolf Tracks and Peter and the Wolf
Wolf Tracks and Peter and the Wolf was a 2005 album that combined the orchestral composition Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev with a 2002 composition, Wolf Tracks, which had its score written by French composer Jean-Pascal Beintus and text written by Walt Kreamer...

at the 2003 installment of the awards.

Recipients

Year Performing artist(s) Personnel Work Nominees Ref.
1994 Deborah Raffin
Deborah Raffin
Deborah Iona Raffin is an American film and television actress.Raffin was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Trudy Marshall, a Brooklyn-born former movie actress, and Phillip Jordan Raffin, a restaurateur and meat/brokerage executive.She appeared in several 1970s Hollywood films...

 and Michael Viner
Michael Viner
Michael Viner was an American film producer and record producer, who later shifted into book publishing and became an innovator in the audiobook field...

, producers
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

  • John Cleese
    John Cleese
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     – Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (Dr. Seuss) (Sharon Lerner producer)
  • Danny Glover
    Danny Glover
    Danny Lebern Glover is an American actor, film director, and political activist. Glover is perhaps best known for his role as Detective Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film franchise.-Early life:...

     and Dr. John
    Dr. John
    Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, Jr. , better known by the stage name Dr. John , is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and guitarist, whose music combines blues, pop, jazz as well as Zydeco, boogie woogie and rock and roll.Active as a session musician since the late 1950s, he came to wider...

     – Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion (Dr. John, Ken Hoin, and Doris Wilhousky producers)
  • Sesame Street Muppets
    Sesame Street Muppets
    The Muppets are a group of puppet characters created by Jim Henson, many for the purpose of appearing on the children's television program Sesame Street. Henson's involvement in Sesame Street began when he and Joan Ganz Cooney, one of the creators of the show, met in the summer 1968, at one of...

     – The Muppet Christmas Carol Story Album (Ed Mitchell producer)
  • Various artists
    Compilation album
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     – Aladdin Sound and Story Theater (Ted Kryczko producer)

1995 Various artists
Compilation album
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Robert Guillaume
Robert Guillaume
Robert "Bob" Guillaume is an American stage and television actor, best known for his role as Benson Du Bois on the TV-series Soap and the spin-off Benson, voicing the mandrill Rafiki in The Lion King and as Isaac Jaffe on Sports Night...

, narrator. Randy Thornton and Ted Kryczko, producers
  • Amy Grant
    Amy Grant
    Amy Lee Grant is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, media personality and actress, best known for her Christian music. She has been referred to as "The Queen of Christian Pop"...

     – The Creation (Bela Fleck, Brian Gleeson, and Craig Rogers producers)
  • John Hurt
    John Hurt
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     – Aladdin and the Magic Lamp (Brian Gleeson, Mickey Hart, and C.W. Rogers producers)
  • Garrison Keillor
    Garrison Keillor
    Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, storyteller, humorist, and radio personality. He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, and radio...

     – Johnny Appleseed
    Johnny Appleseed
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    (Ken Hoin and Mark O'Connor
    Mark O'Connor
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     producers)
  • Various artists
    Compilation album
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     – The Magic School Bus: Fun With Sound (John Wynne producer)

1996 Dan Broatman and Martin Sauer, producers
  • Morgan Freeman
    Morgan Freeman
    Morgan Freeman is an American actor, film director, aviator and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice. Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus and won...

     – Follow the Drinking Gourd (Taj Mahal
    Taj Mahal (musician)
    Henry Saint Clair Fredericks , who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American Grammy Award winning blues musician. He incorporates elements of world music into his music...

    , John McCally, and Doris Wilhousky producers)
  • David Holt and Bill Mooney – Why the Dog Chases the Cat: Great Animal Stories (David Holt and Bill Mooney producers)
  • B.B. King and Denzel Washington
    Denzel Washington
    Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and film producer. He first rose to prominence when he joined the cast of the medical drama, St. Elsewhere, playing Dr...

     – John Henry
    John Henry (folklore)
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    (B.B. King and Doris Wilhousky producers)
  • Winona Ryder
    Winona Ryder
    Winona Ryder is an American actress. She made her film debut in the 1986 film Lucas. Ryder's first significant role came in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice as a goth teenager, which won her critical and commercial recognition...

     – The Diary of a Young Girl
    The Diary of a Young Girl
    The Diary of a Young Girl is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944 and Anne Frank ultimately died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen...

    (Lauren Krenzel producer)

1997 Steven Heller
Steven Heller (composer-producer)
Steven Heller is a producer-composer, based in Asheville, North Carolina, who has won two Grammy Awards, as well as a number of national awards for his music and recordings...

, David Holt, and Virginia Callaway, producers
  • Melissa Manchester
    Melissa Manchester
    Melissa Manchester is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Beginning in the 1970s, she has recorded generally in the adult contemporary genre. She has also appeared as an actress on television, in films, and on stage....

     – The Wonderful O (James Thurber) (Deborah Raffin producer)* Melissa Manchester
    Melissa Manchester
    Melissa Manchester is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Beginning in the 1970s, she has recorded generally in the adult contemporary genre. She has also appeared as an actress on television, in films, and on stage....

     – The Wonderful O (James Thurber) (Deborah Raffin producer)
  • Carl Reiner
    Carl Reiner
    Carl Reiner is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. He has won nine Emmy Awards and one Grammy Award during this career...

     – The Prince and the Pauper
    The Prince and the Pauper
    The Prince and the Pauper is an English-language novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada before its 1882 publication in the United States. The book represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction...

     (Mark Twain)
    (Victoria Preminger producer)
  • Robin Williams
    Robin Williams
    Robin McLaurin Williams is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance...

     – Jumanji
    Jumanji
    Jumanji is the title of a 1981 children's illustrated short story and fantasy story written and illustrated by the American author Chris Van Allsburg. It was made into a 1995 film of the same name. Both the book and the movie are about a magical board game that implements real animals and other...

     (Chris Van Allsburg)
    (Susan Dudnick Boer producer)
  • Michael York
    Michael York (actor)
    Michael York, OBE is an English actor.-Early life:York was born in Fulmer, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the son of Florence Edith May , a musician; and Joseph Gwynne Johnson, a Llandovery born Welsh ex-Royal Artillery British Army officer and executive with Marks and Spencer department stores...

     – Treasure Island
    Treasure Island
    Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book on May 23, 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881–82 under the title Treasure Island; or, the...

     (Robert Louis Stevenson)
    (Shauna Zurbrugg producer)

1998 John McElroy, producer
  • Long John Baldry
    Long John Baldry
    John William "Long John" Baldry was an English and Canadian blues singer and a voice actor. He sang with many British musicians, with Rod Stewart and Elton John appearing in bands led by Baldry in the 1960s. He enjoyed pop success in the UK where Let the Heartaches Begin reached No...

     – The Original Story of Winnie-the-Pooh
  • Gabriel Byrne
    Gabriel Byrne
    Gabriel James Byrne is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, writer, cultural ambassador and audiobook narrator. His acting career began in the Focus Theatre before he joined Londo's Royal Court Theatre in 1979. Byrne's screen debut came in the Irish soap opera The Riordans and the...

     – The Star-Child and the Nightingale & the Rose
  • Eric Idle
    Eric Idle
    Eric Idle is an English comedian, actor, author, singer, writer, and comedic composer. He was as a member of the British comedy group Monty Python, a member of the The Rutles on Saturday Night Live and author of the play, Spamalot....

     – The Quite Remarkable Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat

1999 Various artists
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

Dan Musselman and Stefan Rudnicki, producers
  • Miguel Ferrer
    Miguel Ferrer
    Miguel José Ferrer is an American actor and voice actor who is often cast as a villain. His notable roles include Bob Morton, a supporting character in RoboCop , the short tempered FBI agent Albert Rosenfield in Twin Peaks, and Dr...

     – Disney's The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
    The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
    The Lion King II: Simba's Pride is a 1998 American direct-to-video animated film released by Walt Disney Home Video on October 27, 1998. The film is the sequel to the 1994 Disney animated film The Lion King...

     Read-Along
    (Randy Thornton producer)
  • June Foray
    June Foray
    June Foray is an American voice actress, best known as the voice of many animated characters...

     – Disney's Mulan Read and Sing Along (Ted Kryczko and Randy Thornton producers)
  • Bill Harley
    Bill Harley
    Bill Harley is a children's entertainer and storyteller who has been called "the Mark Twain of contemporary children's music" by Entertainment Weekly. He uses a range of musical styles and appeals to children and adults with quirky, heart-filled lyrics...

     – Weezie and the Moon Pies (Bill Harley producer)
  • Sharon Kennedy – The Patchwork Quilt and Other Stories From Around the World (Bing Broderick, Kennedy and Steve Netsky producers)
  • Sesame Street Muppets
    Sesame Street Muppets
    The Muppets are a group of puppet characters created by Jim Henson, many for the purpose of appearing on the children's television program Sesame Street. Henson's involvement in Sesame Street began when he and Joan Ganz Cooney, one of the creators of the show, met in the summer 1968, at one of...

     – Elmo's New Laugh (Ed Mitchell producer)

2000 , Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...

, and Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet
Kate Elizabeth Winslet is an English actress and occasional singer. She has received multiple awards and nominations. She was the youngest person to accrue six Academy Award nominations, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Reader...

David Frost and Steven Epstein
Steven Epstein (music producer)
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, producers
  • Jim Dale
    Jim Dale
    Jim Dale, MBE is an English actor, voice artist, singer and songwriter. He is best known in the United Kingdom for his many appearances in the Carry On series of films and in the US for narrating the Harry Potter audiobook series, for which he received two Grammy Awards, and the ABC series Pushing...

     – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Kathy Hale producer)
  • Bill Harley
    Bill Harley
    Bill Harley is a children's entertainer and storyteller who has been called "the Mark Twain of contemporary children's music" by Entertainment Weekly. He uses a range of musical styles and appeals to children and adults with quirky, heart-filled lyrics...

     – The Battle of Mad Scientists and Other Tales of Survival (Debbie Block and Bill Harley producers)
  • Hayden Panettiere
    Hayden Panettiere
    Hayden Leslie Panettiere is an American actress and singer, best known as cheerleader Claire Bennet on the NBC television series Heroes. She began her acting career by playing Sarah Roberts on One Life to Live , and Lizzie Spaulding on Guiding Light , before starring at age 10 as Sheryl Yoast in...

     – A Bug's Life
    A Bug's Life
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     Read-Along
    (Randy Thornton and Ted Kryczko producers)
  • Sesame Street Muppets
    Sesame Street Muppets
    The Muppets are a group of puppet characters created by Jim Henson, many for the purpose of appearing on the children's television program Sesame Street. Henson's involvement in Sesame Street began when he and Joan Ganz Cooney, one of the creators of the show, met in the summer 1968, at one of...

     – Let's Eat! (Ed Mitchell producer)
2001 David Rapkin
David Rapkin
David Rapkin is a recording engineer, sound designer and audio producer, based in New York.-Career:Rapkin has designed sound on Broadway for Steaming by Nell Dunn, On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson, The Curse Of An Aching Heart by William Alfred, The Wake Of Jamie Foster by Beth Henley and...

, producer
  • James Earl Jones
    James Earl Jones
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     – The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
  • Liam Neeson
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     – The Polar Express
    The Polar Express
    The Polar Express is a 1985 children's book written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg, a former professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. It was adapted as an Oscar-nominated motion-capture film in 2004....

  • Paul Newman
    Paul Newman
    Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver and auto racing enthusiast...

     – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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  • Susan Sarandon
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     – Dinosongs: Poems to Celebrate a T. Rex Named Sue

  • 2002 Arnold Cardillo, producer. Rory Young, audio engineer
    Audio engineering
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    • Tim Curry
      Tim Curry
      Timothy James "Tim" Curry is a British actor, singer, composer and voice actor, known for his work in a diverse range of theatre, film and television productions. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California....

       – A Series of Unfortunate Events — Book 1: The Bad Beginning
      The Bad Beginning
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    • Stephen Fry
      Stephen Fry
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       and Vanessa Redgrave
      Vanessa Redgrave
      Vanessa Redgrave, CBE is an English actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a political activist.She rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since made more than 35 appearances on London's West End and Broadway, winning...

       – Oscar Wilde: The Selfish Giant and the Nightingale and the Rose
    • Various artists
      Compilation album
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       – Dr. Seuss — How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
      How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
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       — CD Read-Along
    • Ruth Westheimer
      Ruth Westheimer
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       – Timeless Tales and Music of Our Time

    2003
    • Jamie Lee Curtis
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       – The Jamie Lee Curtis Audio Collection
    • John Lithgow
      John Lithgow
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       and various artists – Ogden Nash's the Christmas That Almost Wasn't
    • Jerry Seinfeld
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       – Halloween
    • Various artists
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       – Monsters, Inc.
      Monsters, Inc.
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       DVD Read-Along

    2004 , Mikhail Gorbachev
    Mikhail Gorbachev
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    , and Sophia Loren
    Sophia Loren
    Sophia Loren, OMRI is an Italian actress.In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, along with 21 awards, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance...

    Wilhelm Hellweg, producer. Jean-Marie Geijsen, audio engineer.
    • Jim Broadbent
      Jim Broadbent
      James "Jim" Broadbent is an English theatre, film, and television actor. He is known for his roles in Iris, Moulin Rouge!, Topsy-Turvy, Hot Fuzz, and Bridget Jones' Diary...

       – Winnie-the-Pooh
      Winnie-the-Pooh (book)
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    • Jim Dale
      Jim Dale
      Jim Dale, MBE is an English actor, voice artist, singer and songwriter. He is best known in the United Kingdom for his many appearances in the Carry On series of films and in the US for narrating the Harry Potter audiobook series, for which he received two Grammy Awards, and the ABC series Pushing...

       – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
      Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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    • Eric Idle
      Eric Idle
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       – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
      Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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    • Carl Reiner
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       – Tell Me a Scary Story

    2005 Arnold Cardillo, producer. Rory Young, audio engineer.
    • Marin Alsop
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       – The Story of Classical Music
    • John Lithgow
      John Lithgow
      John Arthur Lithgow is an American actor, musician, and author. Presently, he is involved with a wide range of media projects, including stage, television, film, and radio...

       – The Emperor's New Clothes
      The Emperor's New Clothes
      "The Emperor's New Clothes" is a short tale by Hans Christian Andersen about two weavers who promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent...

    • Various artists
      Compilation album
      A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

       – Green Eggs and Ham and Other Servings of Dr. Seuss
    • Elaine Stritch
      Elaine Stritch
      Elaine Stritch is an American actress and vocalist. She has appeared in numerous stage plays and musicals, feature films, and many television programs...

       – The Best Halloween Ever
      The Best Halloween Ever
      The Best Halloween Ever! is a book by Barbara Robinson. The book is a sequel to Robinson's earlier work The Best Christmas Pageant Ever! Matt Berman of Commonsense Media describes the book as being "tame to the point of being lame", while Chris Sherman of Booklist says that "Robinson's suspenseful...

    2006 Various artists
    Compilation album
    A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

    Christopher B. Cerf and Marlo Thomas
    Marlo Thomas
    Margaret Julia “Marlo” Thomas is an American actress, producer, and social activist known for her starring role on the TV series That Girl . She also serves as National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital...

    , producers. Nick Cipriano, audio engineer.
  • Jim Dale
    Jim Dale
    Jim Dale, MBE is an English actor, voice artist, singer and songwriter. He is best known in the United Kingdom for his many appearances in the Carry On series of films and in the US for narrating the Harry Potter audiobook series, for which he received two Grammy Awards, and the ABC series Pushing...

     – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth and penultimate novel in the Harry Potter series by British author J. K. Rowling...

  • Roy Dotrice
    Roy Dotrice
    Roy Dotrice, OBE is a British actor known for his Tony Award-winning Broadway performance in the revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten.-Life and career:...

     – Pooh's Heffalump
  • Ray Romano
    Ray Romano
    Raymond Albert "Ray" Romano is an American actor, writer and stand-up comedian, best known for his roles on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond and in the Ice Age film series. He recently starred in the TNT comedy-drama Men of a Certain Age.-Early life:Romano was born in Queens, New York to Italian...

     – Raymie, Dickie, and the Bean: Why I Love and Hate My Brothers
  • Various artists
    Compilation album
    A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

      (David Rapkin
    David Rapkin
    David Rapkin is a recording engineer, sound designer and audio producer, based in New York.-Career:Rapkin has designed sound on Broadway for Steaming by Nell Dunn, On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson, The Curse Of An Aching Heart by William Alfred, The Wake Of Jamie Foster by Beth Henley and...

     producer) – A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning
    The Bad Beginning
    The Bad Beginning is the first of thirteen novels in American author Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. It was later released in paperback under the name The Bad Beginning; or, Orphans! The novel tells the story of three children, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, who are orphaned...

  • 2007 David Correia, audio engineer
  • Jim Dale
    Jim Dale
    Jim Dale, MBE is an English actor, voice artist, singer and songwriter. He is best known in the United Kingdom for his many appearances in the Carry On series of films and in the US for narrating the Harry Potter audiobook series, for which he received two Grammy Awards, and the ABC series Pushing...

     – Peter Pan
    Peter Pan
    Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie . A mischievous boy who can fly and magically refuses to grow up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang the Lost Boys, interacting with...

  • John McCutcheon
    John McCutcheon
    John McCutcheon is an American folk music singer and multi-instrumentalist who has produced 34 albums since the 1970s. He is regarded as a master of the hammered dulcimer, and is also proficient on many other instruments including guitar, banjo, autoharp, mountain dulcimer, fiddle, and...

     – Christmas in the Trenches
    Christmas in the Trenches
    "Christmas in the Trenches" is a ballad from John McCutcheon's 1984 Album Winter Solstice. It tells the story of the 1914 Christmas Truce between the British and German lines on the Western Front during the Great War from the perspective of a fictional British soldier. Although Francis Tolliver is...

  • Lynn Redgrave
    Lynn Redgrave
    Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE was an English actress.A member of the well-known British family of actors, Redgrave trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962...

     – The Witches
  • Various artists
    Compilation album
    A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

     – Disney's Little Einsteins Musical Missions
  • 2008
    50th Grammy Awards
    The 50th Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, on February 10, 2008. Kanye West received the most nominations, with eight. Amy Winehouse was the big winner, winning a total of five awards. Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters won Album of the Year,...

    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
    Toni Morrison
    Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved...

     – Who's Got Game? The Ant Or The Grasshopper? The Lion Or the Mouse? Poppy Or the Snake?
  • Stanley Tucci
    Stanley Tucci
    Stanley Tucci is an American actor, writer, film producer and film director. He has been nominated for several notable film awards, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his performance in The Lovely Bones...

     and Meryl Streep
    Meryl Streep
    Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television and film.Streep made her professional stage debut in 1971's The Playboy of Seville, before her screen debut in the television movie The Deadliest Season in 1977. In that same year, she made her film debut with...

      – The One and Only Shrek

  • 2009
    51st Grammy Awards
    The 51st Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA on February 8, 2009. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss were the biggest winners of the night, jointly winning five awards including Album of the Year and Record of the Year...

    Daniel P. Dauterive, producer. Beth Anne Austein, David Correia, and Michael Marsolek, audio engineers.
    • Buck Howdy and BB – Around the Campfire
    • Gwyneth Paltrow
      Gwyneth Paltrow
      Gwyneth Kate Paltrow is an American actress and singer. She made her acting debut on stage in 1990 and started appearing in films in 1991. After appearing in several films throughout the decade, Paltrow gained early notice for her work in films such as Se7en and Emma...

       – Brown Bear and Friends
    • Dean Pitchford
      Dean Pitchford
      Dean Pitchford is an American songwriter, screenwriter, director, actor, and novelist. His work has earned him an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for three additional Oscars, two more Golden Globes, seven Grammy Awards and two Tony Awards.-Early life:Pitchford was born in...

       – The Big One-Oh
    • Tony Shalhoub
      Tony Shalhoub
      Anthony Marcus "Tony" Shalhoub is an American actor of Lebanese descent. His television work includes the roles of Antonio Scarpacci on Wings and sleuth Adrian Monk on the TV series Monk. He has won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe for his work in Monk...

       – The Cricket in Times Square
    2010
    52nd Grammy Awards
    The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards took place on January 31, 2010, at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Neil Young was honored as the 2010 MusiCares Person of the Year on January 29, two days prior to the Grammy telecast. Only ten of the 109 awards were received during the broadcast...

    Buck Howdy, producer. Steve Wetherbee, audio engineer and mixer
    Audio mixing (recorded music)
    In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...

    .
  • Ed Asner
    Ed Asner
    Edward Asner , commonly known as Ed Asner, is an American film, television, stage, and voice actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Lou Grant on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series, Lou Grant...

     – Scat
    Scat (novel)
    Scat is a teenage novel by Carl Hiaasen, published in 2009. Scat tells the mystery of a missing teacher named Mrs. Bunny Starch, and how two of her students, Nick and Marta, do everything to find her. The book is held in over 1,000 libraries, according to WorldCat...

  • Harlan Ellison
    Harlan Ellison
    Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media...

     – Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
    Through the Looking-Glass
    Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a work of literature by Lewis Carroll . It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...

  • David Hyde Pierce
    David Hyde Pierce
    David Hyde Pierce is an American actor and comedian best known for playing psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier, for which he received many accolades including four Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.-Early life:Pierce, the youngest of four siblings,...

      – The Phantom Tollbooth
    The Phantom Tollbooth
    The Phantom Tollbooth is a children's adventure novel and modern fairy tale published in 1961, written by Norton Juster and illustrated by Jules Feiffer. It tells the story of a bored young boy named Milo who unexpectedly receives a magic tollbooth one afternoon and, having nothing better to do,...

  • Dean Pitchford
    Dean Pitchford
    Dean Pitchford is an American songwriter, screenwriter, director, actor, and novelist. His work has earned him an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for three additional Oscars, two more Golden Globes, seven Grammy Awards and two Tony Awards.-Early life:Pitchford was born in...

     – Captain Nobody
  • Various artists
    Compilation album
    A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

     – Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales

  • 2011
    53rd Grammy Awards
    The 53rd annual Grammy Awards were held on February 13, 2011, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. They were broadcast on CBS with a rating of 26.6 million viewers. Barbra Streisand was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year two nights prior to the telecast on February 11. Nominations were...

    and Emma Walton Hamilton
    Emma Walton Hamilton
    Emma Walton Hamilton is an actress and an author of children's books. She is the daughter of actress and singer Julie Andrews and set and costume designer Tony Walton. She has published over 23 books with her mother including The Very Fairy Princess and Dumpy the Dumptruck...

    Michele McGonigle, producer. Cynthia Daniels, John Colucci and Tommy Harron, audio engineers and mixers.
    • Selma Blair
      Selma Blair
      Selma Blair is an American actress who has worked in film, theatre and television. She has performed in feature films including Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde, The Sweetest Thing, Hellboy, The Fog, Purple Violets and Hellboy II: The Golden Army...

       – Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
    • Bill Harley
      Bill Harley
      Bill Harley is a children's entertainer and storyteller who has been called "the Mark Twain of contemporary children's music" by Entertainment Weekly. He uses a range of musical styles and appeals to children and adults with quirky, heart-filled lyrics...

       – The Best Candy in the Whole World
    • Emma Thompson
      Emma Thompson
      Emma Thompson is a British actress, comedian and screenwriter. Her first major film role was in the 1989 romantic comedy The Tall Guy. In 1992, Thompson won multiple acting awards, including an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress, for her performance in the British drama Howards End...

       – Nanny McPhee Returns
    • Various artists
      Compilation album
      A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

      Healthy Food for Thought: Good Enough to Eat


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