| Year | Winner | Work | Nominees | Ref. |
| 1959 | | "The Chipmunk Song" |
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| 1960 | | Peter and the Wolf | The Arabian Nights – Maria Ray ' – Franz Allers Popeye's Favorite Sea Chanties – Captain Allen Swift Three to Make Music/Cinderella – Mary Martin | |
| 1961 | | Let's All Sing with The Chipmunks | Adventures in Music, Grade 3, Volume 1 – Howard Mitchell Dr. Seuss Presents: Bartholomew and the Oobleck – performed by Folk Songs for Young People – Pete Seeger Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes – Sterling Holloway Stories and Songs of the Civil War – Ralph Bellamy | |
| 1962 | | Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf | Golden Treasury of Great Music and Literature – One Hundred and One Dalmatians – The Soupy Sales Show – Soupy Sales Young Abe Lincoln – | |
| 1963 | | Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals/Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra | The Cat Who Walked by Herself – Boris Karloff The Chipmunk Songbook – Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. Grimm's Fairy Tales – Danny Kaye Shari in Storyland – Shari Lewis Through Children's Eyes – The Limeliters You Read to Me, I'll Read to You – John Ciardi | |
| 1964 | | Bernstein Conducts For Young People | Addition and Subtraction – Rica Owen Moore Children's Concert – Pete Seeger Let's Go to the Zoo – On Top of Spaghetti – Puff, the Magic Dragon – Peter, Paul & Mary Winnie-the-Pooh – Jack Gilford | |
| 1965 | & Julie Andrews | "Mary Poppins" | Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra – Chim Chim Cheree and Other Children's Choices – Daniel Boone – Fess Parker "A Spoonful of Sugar" – | |
| 1966 | | Dr. Seuss Presents: "Fox in Sox" and "Green Eggs and Ham" | Alice Through the Looking-Glass – The Christmas That Almost Wasn't – For the Children of the World: Art Linkletter Narrates the Bible – Art Linkletter Happiness Is – | |
| 1967 | | "Dr. Seuss Presents - "If I Ran The Zoo" And "Sleep Book"" | Love Songs for Children: "A" You're Adorable – Diahann Carroll Patrick Muldoon and His Magic Balloon – Carmel Quinn "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" – Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. Winnie-the-Pooh and the Honey Tree – Sterling Holloway & Sebastian Cabot | |
| 1968 | | "Dr. Seuss: How The Grinch Stole Christmas" | The Carnival of the Animals – A Happy Birthday Book with Winnie-the-Pooh – Sterling Holloway The Jungle Book – Jungle Books – Richard Kiley Magic Fishbone/Happy Prince/Potted Princess – Julie Harris & Richard Kiley | |
| 1970 | | Peter, Paul and Mommy | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – Folk Tales of the Tribes of Africa – Eartha Kitt For All My Little Friends – Tiny Tim Yellow Submarine and Other Big Hits for Little People – | |
| 1971 | & Thomas Z. Shepard | Sesame Street | The Aristocats A Boy Named Charlie Brown Rubber Duckie Susan Sings Songs from "Sesame Street" – Loretta Long | |
| 1972 | | Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs | Sesame Street, Rubber Duckie and Other Songs from "Sesame Street" – Sex Explained for Children – Stanley Daniels The Story of Sheherazade – Julie Harris Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory – | |
| 1973 | & Rita Moreno
Produced by Christopher Cerf, Joe Raposo, and Lee Chamberlin | "The Electric Company" | Kukla, Fran and Ollie The Muppet Alphabet Album Sesame Street II Snoopy, Come Home | |
| 1974 | | Sesame Street Live! | Free to Be... You and Me The Little Prince – Peter Ustinov Multiplication Rock – Bob Dorough Songs from "The Electric Company" TV Show | |
| 1975 | , Sebastian Cabot & Sterling Holloway | "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too" | America Sings Eli Wallach Reads Isaac Bashevis Singer – Eli Wallach New Adventures of Bugs Bunny, Volume 2 – Mel Blanc Robin Hood – Roger Miller | |
| 1976 | | "The Little Prince" | Bert & Ernie Sing-Along Merry Christmas from Sesame Street Mr. Popper's Penguins – Jim Backus Really Rosie – Carole King Sesame Street Monsters | |
| 1977 | & Karl Böhm | "Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf/Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals" | The Adventures of Ali and His Gang vs. Mr. Tooth Decay – Muhammad Ali Disney's A Christmas Carol Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs "Winnie-the-Pooh for President " – Sterling Holloway | |
| 1978 | & Jim Timmens | Aren't You Glad You're You | A Charlie Brown Christmas Dope! The Dope King's Last Stand – Muhammad Ali Russell Hoban, The Mouse and His Child – Peter Ustinov The Sesame Street Fairy Tale Album | |
| 1979 | | The Muppet Show | Charlie Brown's All-Stars The Hobbit Peter and the Wolf – Sesame Street Fever | |
| 1980 | & Paul Williams | "The Muppet Movie " | Anne Murray Sings for the Sesame Street Generation – Anne Murray Sesame Disco The Stars Come out on Sesame Street You're in Love, Charlie Brown | |
| 1981 | & Lucy Simon | ' | Big Bird's Bedtime Stories Christmas Eve on Sesame Street Love The People in Your Neighborhood | |
| 1982 | & Dennis Scott | Sesame Country | Ants'hillvania Big Bird Discovers the Orchestra A Chipmunk Christmas The Fox and the Hound | |
| 1983 | & Lucy Simon | In Harmony 2 | Animals and Other Things – Best of Friends – The Chipmunks Go Hollywood Here Comes Garfield – Lou Rawls I Am God's Project – | |
| 1984 |
Quincy Jones | E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial | Born to Add: The Great Rock N Roll from Sesame Street The Music Machine II – Candle Rocky Mountain Holiday – | |
| 1985 |
Ron Haffkine | Where the Sidewalk Ends | Agapeland at Play with Holly Heart Flashbeagle Jim Henson's Muppets Present Fraggle Rock Kids' Praise! 4: Singsational Servants The Muppets Take Manhattan | |
| 1986 | & Steve Buckingham | Follow That Bird: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Bullfrogs and Butterflies II – Candle E.T.A. Hoffmann/Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker – Christopher Plummer & Michael Tilson Thomas Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf – Dudley Moore & John Williams The Velveteen Rabbit – Meryl Streep & George Winston We Are the World – | |
| 1987 | , Geri Van Rees & Kathryn King | The Alphabet | A Child's Gift of Lullabyes – Tanya Goodman Sykes Itsy Bitsy Spider – Carly Simon A Light in the Attic – Shel Silverstein One-Minute Bedtime Stories – Shari Lewis | |
| 1988 | & Jack Nicholson
Produced by Bobby McFerrin, Mark Sottnick, and Tom Bradshaw | The Elephant's Child | Bullfrogs and Butterflies Part III – Candle The Emperor and the Nightingale – Glenn Close & Mark Isham Everything Grows – Raffi Lullaby for Teddy – Barbara Fairchild | |
| 1989 |
Music by Ry Cooder
Produced by Mark Sottnick and Ry Cooder | Pecos Bill | The Bible: The Amazing Book – Candle The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Glenn Close & Tim Story Peter and the Wolf/Carnival of the Animals, Part II – "Weird Al" Yankovic & Wendy Carlos The Tailor of Gloucester – Meryl Streep & The Chieftains The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Meryl Streep & Lyle Mays | |
| 1990 |
David R. Lehman & J. Aaron Brown | The Rock-A-Bye Collection, Volume 1 | Bullfrogs and Butterflies IV: I've Been Born Again A Disney Spectacular Oliver and Company: Story and Songs from the Motion Picture Raffi in Concert with the Rise and Shine Band – Raffi Thumbelina – Kelly McGillis & Mark Isham | |
| 1991 | Howard Ashman | The Little Mermaid: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack | Doc Watson Sings Songs for Little Pickers – Doc Watson How the Leopard Got His Spots – Danny Glover & Ladysmith Black Mambazo The Little Mermaid: Read Along – Roy Dotrice The Rock-A-Bye Collection, Volume 2 – Tanya Goodman | |
| 1992 | | A Cappella Kids | Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby – Danny Glover & Taj Mahal The Emperor's New Clothes – John Gielgud & Mark Isham Paul Bunyan – Jonathan Winters & Leo Kottke Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf / A Zoo Called Earth / Gerald McBoing Boing – Peter Schickele | |
| 1993 | & Howard Ashman | Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Chipmunks in Low Places - Alvin and the Chipmunks Snuggle Up: A Gift of Songs for Sweet Dreams - J. Aaron Brown, David R. Lehman and Barbara Bailey Hutchinson Woody's Grow Big Songs 1 and 2 Pete Seeger's Family Concert - Pete Seeger | |
| 2012 | , James Cravero, Kevin Mackie, Patrick Robinson & Steve Pullara | All About Bullies... Big and Small | Are We There Yet? Fitness Rock & Roll - Miss Amy GulfAlive I Love: Tom T. Hall's Songs Of Fox Hollow | |
| 2013 |
Engineered/Mixed & Produced by Dean Jones | Can You Canoe? | High Dive – Bill Harley Little Seed: Songs for Children by Woody Guthrie – Elizabeth Mitchell Radio Jungle – The Pop Ups A Swinging Jungle Tale | |
| 2014 |
Engineered/Mixed by Pierre Messier
Produced by Jennifer Gasoi | Throw a Penny in the Wishing Well | Blue Clouds – Elizabeth Mitchell & You Are My Flower The Mighty Sky – Beth Nielsen Chapman Recess – Justin Roberts Singing Our Way Through: Songs For The World's Bravest Kids – Alastair Moock | |
| 2015 | | | Appetite for Construction – The Pop Ups Just Say Hi! – Brady Rymer and The Little Band That Could The Perfect Quirk – Secret Agent 23 Skidoo Through the Woods – The Okee Dokee Brothers | |
| 2016 | | Home | ¡Come Bien! Eat Right! – José-Luis Orozco Dark Pie Concerns – Gustafer Yellowgold How Great Can This Day Be – Lori Henriques Trees – Molly Ledford & Billy Kelly | |
| 2017 | Secret Agent 23 Skidoo | Infinity Plus One | Explorer Of The World – Frances England Novelties – Recess Monkey Press Play – Brady Rymer And The Little Band That Could Saddle Up – The Okee Dokee Brothers | |
| 2018 | | Feel What U Feel | Brighter Side – Gustafer Yellowgold Lemonade – Justin Roberts Rise Shine #Woke – Alphabet Rockers Songs Of Peace & Love For Kids & Parents Around The World – Ladysmith Black Mambazo | |
| 2019 | Lucy Kalantari & The Jazz Cats | All The Sounds | | |
| 2020 | Jon Samson | Ageless Songs for the Child Archetype | | |
