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Come See...
Hear Barry's song in the film...
"An American treasure."
All Ears Guide
"A delightfully subversive antidote to Mr. Rogers."
Tom Lehrer
"Wickedly funny!"
Parenting Magazine
"A one-man symphony of comic anarchy.
At a time when vast numbers of our kids see school as endless drudgery,
Polisar says otherwise. He says, isn't the English language fun?"
The
Baltimore Sun
Baltimore, Maryland
"Barry Louis Polisar sings songs, plays guitar, reads from his books, recites poetry and tells stories. Most important, he gives kids the giggles. Tons of giggles. And the children might be joined by chuckling parents that Polisar entertained 30 years ago."
The Washington Post
Washington, DC
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Who is Barry Louis Polisar...
...and why are they saying all these things about him?
You may know Barry Louis Polisar as the songwriter and performing artist who sings his hit song
All I Want is You in the opening credits of the film Juno. The soundtrack to that film has sold over a million copies and Barry's song has been heard all over the world.
What you may not know is that Barry wrote and recorded that song in 1977 and that he is a pioneer in the world of books and music for children. Influencing an entire generation of singers and performers for kids, Barry is a four-time Parents’ Choice
Award winner who began writing and recording songs for children
in 1975. Thirty years later his songs and stories still stand
out as refreshing and unique.
Barry has written numerous children's books, poems and stories and he travels throughout the United States and Europe as a visiting author in schools and libraries. His music can be heard on radio and television and he has performed at The White House, The Smithsonian and The Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts.
You have probably heard many of Barry's songs and stories already. He has written songs for Sesame
Street and The Weekly
Reader, starred in an Emmy Award-winning television show for children, and
has been featured regularly on The Learning Channel.
Barry works with
literacy groups, media specialists, reading teachers and Title I programs in schools and libraries throughout the US and was awarded a Special Library
Recognition Award for his "ability to communicate with
and excite children to read." He has been described as a "clown, poet, minstrel and the best kind of hero: outrageous and irreverent, all under the license of being irrepressibly funny."
Welcome to the world of Barry
Louis Polisar.... for those
who want children's books and songs that are witty, intelligent and
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