Children’s

68th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Children's Album

Harmony. Harold Simmons II, Aura Valentina Simmons

67th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Children's Album

Brillo, Brillo!. Lucky Diaz

66th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Children's Album

We Grow Together Preschool Songs. 123 Andrés

65th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Children's Album

The Movement. Alphabet Rockers

64th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Children's Album

A Colorful World. Falu

63rd Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Children's Album

All The Ladies. Joanie Leeds

62nd Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Children's Album

Ageless: Songs for the Child Archetype. Jon Samson

61st Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Children's Album

All The Sounds. Lucy Kalantari

60th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Children's Album

Feel What U Feel. Lisa Loeb And Nine Stories

59th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Children's Album

Infinity Plus One. Secret Agent 23 Skidoo

About Children’s

Music Facts: Children's

Children's music and recordings have been around since the advent of the recording industry, experiencing a market boom and growing into a genre all its own in the mid-20th century.
Mixing entertainment with education, children's music and recordings have seen mainstream success via breakout groups and franchises like "Sesame Street," "Schoolhouse Rock!" and Kidz Bop.
Recent GRAMMY winners and nominees in the children's category include the Okee Dokee Brothers, Gustafer Yellowgold and Secret Agent 23 Skidoo.
Joanie Leeds won the GRAMMY for Best Children's Music Album at the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards in 2021 for All The Ladies.

Grammy Awards for Children’s

Year	Category	Winner	Work	Actions
2026	Best Children's Album	Harold Simmons II, Aura Valentina Simmons	Harmony	All Nominees
2025	Best Children's Album	Lucky Diaz	Brillo, Brillo!	All Nominees
2024	Best Children's Album	123 Andrés	We Grow Together Preschool Songs	All Nominees
2023	Best Children's Album	Alphabet Rockers	The Movement	All Nominees
2022	Best Children's Album	Falu	A Colorful World	All Nominees
2021	Best Children's Album	Joanie Leeds	All The Ladies	All Nominees
2020	Best Children's Album	Jon Samson	Ageless: Songs for the Child Archetype	All Nominees
2019	Best Children's Album	Lucy Kalantari	All The Sounds	All Nominees
2018	Best Children's Album	Lisa Loeb And Nine Stories	Feel What U Feel	All Nominees
2017	Best Children's Album	Secret Agent 23 Skidoo	Infinity Plus One	All Nominees
2016	Best Children's Album	Tim Kubart	Home	All Nominees
2015	Best Children's Album	Neela Vaswani	I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World (Malala Yousafzai)	All Nominees
2014	Best Children's Album	Jennifer Gasoi	Throw A Penny In The Wishing Well	All Nominees
2013	Best Children's Album	The Okee Dokee Brothers	Can You Canoe?	All Nominees
2012	Best Children's Album	Various Artists	All About Bullies... Big And Small	All Nominees
2011	Best Musical Album For Children	Pete Seeger	Tomorrow's Children	All Nominees
2011	Best Spoken Word Album For Children	Julie Andrews, Emma Walton Hamilton	Julie Andrews' Collection Of Poems, Songs, And Lullabies	All Nominees
2010	Best Musical Album For Children	Ziggy Marley	Family Time	All Nominees
2010	Best Spoken Word Album For Children	Buck Howdy	Aaaaah! Spooky, Scary Stories & Songs	All Nominees
2009	Best Musical Album For Children	They Might Be Giants	Here Come The 123s	All Nominees
2009	Best Spoken Word Album For Children	Bill Harley	Yes To Running! Bill Harley Live	All Nominees
2008	Best Musical Album For Children	The Muppets	A Green And Red Christmas	All Nominees
2008	Best Spoken Word Album For Children	Jim Dale	Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows	All Nominees
2007	Best Musical Album For Children	Daniel Zanes	Catch That Train!	All Nominees
2007	Best Spoken Word Album For Children	Bill Harley	Blah Blah Blah: Stories About Clams, Swamp Monsters, Pirates & Dogs	All Nominees
2006	Best Musical Album For Children	Various Artists	Songs From The Neighborhood - The Music Of Mister Rogers	All Nominees
2006	Best Spoken Word Album For Children	Marlo Thomas	Marlo Thomas & Friends: Thanks & Giving All Year Long	All Nominees
2005	Best Musical Album For Children	Various Artists	cELLAbration! A Tribute To Ella Jenkins	All Nominees
2005	Best Spoken Word Album For Children	Tom Chapin	The Train They Call The City Of New Orleans	All Nominees
2004	Best Musical Album For Children	Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer	Bon Appétit!	All Nominees
2004	Best Spoken Word Album For Children	Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Sophia Loren	Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf/Beintus: Wolf Tracks	All Nominees
2003	Best Musical Album For Children	Riders In The Sky	Monsters, Inc. - Scream Factory Favorites	All Nominees
2003	Best Spoken Word Album For Children	Tom Chapin	There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly	All Nominees
2002	Best Musical Album For Children	(Sesame Street Characters)	Elmo And The Orchestra	All Nominees
2002	Best Spoken Word Album For Children	Tom Chapin	Mama Don't Allow	All Nominees
2001	Best Musical Album For Children	Riders In The Sky	Woody's Roundup Featuring Riders In The Sky	All Nominees
2001	Best Spoken Word Album For Children	Jim Dale	Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire	All Nominees
2000	Best Musical Album For Children	(Various Artists)	The Adventures Of Elmo In Grouchland	All Nominees
2000	Best Spoken Word Album For Children	Wynton Marsalis, Graham Greene, Kate Winslet	Listen To The Storyteller	All Nominees
1999	Best Musical Album For Children	(The Sesame Street Muppets & Various Artists)	Elmopalooza!	All Nominees
1999	Best Spoken Word Album For Children	(Various Artists)	The Children's Shakespeare	All Nominees
1998	Best Musical Album For Children	John Denver	All Aboard!	All Nominees
1998	Best Spoken Word Album For Children	Charles Kuralt	Winnie-The-Pooh	All Nominees
1997	Best Musical Album For Children	Linda Ronstadt	Dedicated To The One I Love	All Nominees
1997	Best Spoken Word Album For Children	David Holt	Stellaluna	All Nominees
1996	Best Musical Album For Children	Barbara Bailey Hutchison	Sleepy Time Lullabys	All Nominees
1996	Best Spoken Word Album For Children	Patrick Stewart	Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf	All Nominees
1995	Best Musical Album For Children	(Various Artists)	The Lion King - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	All Nominees
1995	Best Spoken Word Album For Children	Robert Guillaume	The Lion King Read-Along	All Nominees
1994	Best Musical Album For Children	(Various Artists)	Aladdin - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	All Nominees
1994	Best Spoken Word Album For Children	Audrey Hepburn	Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales	All Nominees
1993	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	(Various Artists)	Beauty And The Beast - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	All Nominees
1992	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	(The Maranatha! Kids)	A Capella Kids	All Nominees
1991	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	(Various Artists)	The Little Mermaid	All Nominees
1990	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	Tanya Goodman	The Rock-A-Bye Collection, Vol. 1	All Nominees
1989	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	Robin Williams, Ry Cooder	Pecos Bill	All Nominees
1988	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	Bobby McFerrin, Jack Nicholson	The Elephant's Child	All Nominees
1987	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	(The Sesame Street Muppets)	The Alphabet	All Nominees
1986	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	Jim Henson	Follow That Bird - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	All Nominees
1985	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	Shel Silverstein	Where The Sidewalk Ends	All Nominees
1984	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	Michael Jackson	E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial	All Nominees
1983	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	(Various Artists)	In Harmony 2	All Nominees
1982	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	(The Muppets, Glen Campbell, Crystal Gayle, Loretta Lynn, Tanya Tucker)	Sesame Country	All Nominees
1981	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	(Various Artists)	In Harmony/A Sesame Street Record	All Nominees
1980	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	(The Muppets)	The Muppet Movie	All Nominees
1979	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	(The Muppets)	The Muppet Show	All Nominees
1978	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	(Various Artists)	Aren't You Glad You're You	All Nominees
1977	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	Karl Bohm, Hermione Gingold	Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf/Saint-Saens: Carnival Of The Animals	All Nominees
1976	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	Richard Burton	The Little Prince	All Nominees
1975	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	Sterling Holloway, Sebastian Cabot, Paul Winchell	Winnie The Pooh And Tigger Too	All Nominees
1974	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	(Sesame Street Cast)	Sesame Street Live	All Nominees
1973	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	Rita Moreno, Bill Cosby	The Electric Company	All Nominees
1972	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	Bill Cosby	Bill Cosby Talks To Kids About Drugs	All Nominees
1971	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	(The Muppets)	Sesame Street	All Nominees
1970	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	Peter, Paul And Mary	Peter, Paul And Mommy	All Nominees
1968	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	Boris Karloff	Dr. Seuss: How The Grinch Stole Christmas	All Nominees
1967	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	Marvin Miller	Dr. Seuss Presents - "If I Ran The Zoo" And "Sleep Book"	All Nominees
1966	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	Marvin Miller	Dr. Seuss Presents "Fox In Sox" And "Green Eggs And Ham"	All Nominees
1965	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke	Mary Poppins	All Nominees
1964	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	Leonard Bernstein	Bernstein Conducts For Young People	All Nominees
1963	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	Leonard Bernstein	Saint-Saens: Carnival Of The Animals/Britten: Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra	All Nominees
1962	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	Leonard Bernstein	Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf	All Nominees
1961	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	(David Seville And The Chipmunks) Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.	Let's All Sing With The Chipmunks	All Nominees
1960	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	Peter Ustinov	Peter And The Wolf	All Nominees
1959	Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken	David Seville And The Chipmunks (Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.)	The Chipmunk Song	All Nominees