Country United States Official website grammy.com Instituted 1994 Category of Grammy Awards | First awarded 1994 Presented by The Recording Academy Last awarded 2011 | |
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Winners & Nominees Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems - Songs - and LullabiesJulie Andrews - Emma Walton Hamilton - Michele McGonigle -, Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems - Songs - and Lullabies, Winner, Healthy Food for Thought: Good Enough to EatJim Cravero, Healthy Food for Thought: Good Enough to Eat, Nominee, Nanny McPhee ReturnsEmma Thompson, Nanny McPhee Returns, Nominee, The Best Candy in the Whole WorldBill Harley, The Best Candy in the Whole World, Nominee, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive EditionSelma Blair, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, Nominee, Aaaaah! Spooky - Scary Stories & SongsSteve Vaus, Aaaaah! Spooky - Scary Stories & Songs, Winner, Yes To Running! Bill Harley LiveBill Harley - David Correia - Michael Marsolek -, Yes To Running! Bill Harley Live, Winner, A Cricket in Times SquareTony Shalhoub, A Cricket in Times Square, Nominee, Around The CampfireBuck Howdy With BB, Around The Campfire, Nominee, Brown Bear And FriendsGwyneth Paltrow, Brown Bear And Friends, Nominee, The Big One-OhDean Pitchford, The Big One-Oh, Nominee, Harry Potter and the deathly HallowsJim Dale - David Rapkin - Orli Moscowitz, Harry Potter and the deathly Hallows, Winner, Blah Blah BlahBill Harley - David Correia, Blah Blah Blah, Winner | ||
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."
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History
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 and producers Arnold Cardillo and David Rapkin, and audio engineer-musical director Rory Young hold 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, are the other musicians 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
^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.