Barry Louis Polisar

Barry Louis Polisar is an author and singer-songwriter who writes children's music and numerous children's books, poems and stories.

Polisar has traveled throughout the United States and Europe as a visiting author in schools and libraries. He is a five-time Parents' Choice Award winner and has performed in The White House, The Smithsonian and The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He has written songs for Sesame Street and The Weekly Reader, has starred in an Emmy Award-winning television show for children and has been featured regularly on The Learning Channel.

Polisar works with literacy groups, media specialists, reading teachers, and Title I programs in schools and has won a Special Library Recognition Award for his "ability to communicate with and excite children to read".

Polisar's song "All I Want Is You" was featured during the opening credits of Jason Reitman's film Juno. This song is featured on advertisements of the National Lottery (United Kingdom), the Honda Civic "Date With a Woodsman", and the Del Monte Foods "Bursting with Life".

A two-disc tribute album, compiled by Aaron Cohen of the Radioactive Chicken Heads entitled "We're Not Kidding! A Tribute to Barry Louis Polisar" was released in 2010. The album features covers of 60 of Polisar's songs by artists such as DeLeon, Rebecca Loebe, The Radioactive Chicken Heads, Tor Hyams, and Barry Louis Polisar's son Evan Polisar.

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