Every Grammys Best Spoken Word Album for Children winner

12 ceremonies, 2000–2011. 8 different winners. The longest run was Tom Chapin, 2 years straight (2002–2003).

It was awarded for the last time in 2011.

From 2012 the Grammys awarded Best Children's Music Album instead.

Tom Chapin ×3Bill Harley ×2Jim Dale ×2

Each band is one winner’s reign. Wider means a longer run. Colored by label; hover for details.

Graham Greene, Wynton Marsalis, and Kate Winslet'00

Jim Dale'01

Tom Chapin'02–'03×2

Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Sophia Loren'04

Tom Chapin'05

Various artists'06

Bill Harley'07

Jim Dale'08

Bill Harley'09

Buck Howdy'10

Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton'11

Wins by label

Listening Library250%
Brunswick Records125%
Warner125%

8 further wins have no label on record and are not counted in the 4 above.

8 of these 12 wins have no label on record, so the bar covers the other 4.

Who kept losing

Counting nominations in this category only, 2000–2011. Excludes 8 nominations credited to Various artists, which names a compilation rather than an act.

Most nominated, never won

Dean Pitchford2 noms

Most losses

Jim Dale4L · 2W
Bill Harley2L · 2W
Dean Pitchford2L · 0W

The full list

Year	Winner	Label
2011	Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton (Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies) beat 4 others 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)	Not listed
2010	Buck Howdy (Aaaaah! Spooky, Scary Stories & Songs) beat 5 others 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)	Not listed
2009	Bill Harley (Yes to Running! Bill Harley Live) beat 4 others 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)	Not listed
2008	Jim Dale (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) beat 4 others 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)	Listening Library
2007	Bill Harley (Blah Blah Blah: Stories About Clams, Swamp Monsters, Pirates and Dogs) beat 4 others Jim Dale (Peter Pan) John McCutcheon (Christmas in the Trenches) Lynn Redgrave (The Witches) Various artists (Disney's Little Einsteins Musical Missions)	Not listed
2006	Various artists (Marlo Thomas & Friends: Thanks & Giving All Year Long) beat 4 others 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)	Atlantic/Kid Rhino
2005	Tom Chapin (The Train They Call the City of New Orleans)unverified beat 4 others 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)	Not listed
2004	Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Sophia Loren (Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf/Beintus: Wolf Tracks) beat 4 others 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)	Not listed
2003	Tom Chapin (There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly)repeat beat 4 others 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)	Brunswick Records
2002	Tom Chapin (Mama Don't Allow) beat 4 others 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)	Not listed
2001	Jim Dale (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) beat 4 others 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)	Listening Library
2000	Graham Greene, Wynton Marsalis, and Kate Winslet (Listen to the Storyteller) beat 4 others Jim Dale (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) Bill Harley (The Battle of Mad Scientists and Other Tales of Survival) Hayden Panettiere (A Bug's Life Read-Along) Sesame Street Muppets (Let's Eat!)	Not listed

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