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“...Award winning musicians and storytellers…know what it takes to grab and keep a child’s attention…(they) craft and tell a captivating story in words and music. They create magical worlds that kids believe – and want to live in – if even only for a few minutes.”

– Parents' Choice

Maestro Classics CDs have won over 50 National Awards!

Maestro Classics' classical music CDs for kids have won 50 national awards from the top children's products reviewers in the country.  Our awards include:

Parents' Choice Awards
The Parents' Choice Awards is designed to help parents and caregivers of all achievements and backgrounds make informed decisions about which new products are right for their children. It is the nation's oldest nonprofit program created to recognize quality children's media.

Gold: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, The Tortoise and the Hare

 

Parents’ Choice Silver
Silver:
Juanita the Spanish Lobster, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Peter and the Wolf
Casey at the Bat,  My Name is Handel: The Story of Handel's Water Music, Juanita la langosta española


Parents’ Choice Honors
Honors: The Story of Swan Lake, The Soldier's Tale
 

NAPPA Awards
NAPPA, the National Parenting Center Awards, seeks and identifies the best children's products and resources for parents and professionals. The award signifies that the winning product has been rigorously evaluated against stringent criteria and that it stands out among hundreds of other products from all around the world.
Gold: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Casey at the Bat, Peter and the Wolf, My Name is Handel: The Story of Handel's Water Music
Honors: The Story of Swan Lake




Oppenheim Toy Portfolio – Platinum
The Oppenheim Toy Portfolio was founded in 1989 as the only independent consumer review of media by child development experts Joanne Oppenheim and her daughter Stephanie Oppenheim. Educator, parent & kid testing goes into each product considered for an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Award.
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

 
National Parenting Center Seal of Approval

The National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval program, created in 1990, identifies the finest products and services being marketed to the parent/child audience. This award signifies to other parents that their peers have acknowledged a product's quality and desirability based on a wide variety of determining factors.
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Casey at the Bat, The Sorcerer's Apprentice
The Story of Swan Lake, The Tortoise and the Hare, Peter and the Wolf
My Name is Handel:The Story of Handel's Water Music, The Soldier's Tale


The Teachers' Choice Award

The Teachers' Choice Award  honors products of exceptional quality and outstanding performance in the classroom and at home. The panel of teacher evaluators use each product in their classrooms and homes to find the best products for teachers and parents.
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

 
  Creative Child Magazine Awards

Creative Child Magazine's Awards Program is unique in that all products submitted are reviewed by moms, music educators and early education professionals. Products are reviewed by many people-the very people who purchase them.
Top Toy: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Casey at the Bat, Peter and the Wolf
CD of the Year: The Tortoise and the Hare, The Story of Swan Lake, Juanita la langosta española, The Soldier's Tale
Preferred Choice Award: Juanita the Spanish Lobster, The Sorcerer's Apprentice,  My Name is Handel: The Story of Handel's Water Music

 
  ALSC Notable Children’s Recordings

The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), selects recordings for children 14 years of age and younger of especially commendable quality that demonstrate respect for young people's intelligence and imagination; exhibit venturesome creativity; and reflect and encourage the interests of children and young adolescents in exemplary ways.
Editors Choice: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel


  Mom’s Choice Award

The Mom's Choice Awards® is known for establishing the benchmark of excellence in family-friendly media, products and services. This annual competition recognizes authors, inventors, companies, parents and others for their efforts in creating quality family-friendly media products and services.
The Tortoise and the Hare

 

PTPA Media Awards
PTPA means parent tested, parent approved. It's a community of parents across North America sharing valuable feedback about the products we bring into our homes and to our families. PTPA is North America's largest parent testing community.
The Tortoise and the Hare


Dr. Toy Awards

For nearly twenty five years, Dr. Toy has been awarding children's products her seals of approval. These items have distinguished themselves over other products in quality and excellence, providing both lasting value and lasting learning.
Best Audio-Visual: The Story of Swan Lake, Peter and the Wolf
Best Vacation Award: Juanita the Spanish Lobster, Casey at the Bat
100 Best Children's Products: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, The Tortoise and the Hare, My Name is Handel

 
iParenting Media

The iParenting Media Awards Program seeks to provide a credible and objective method of determining outstanding products in the marketplace and then honors them with their consumer award.  The reviewers are a diverse set of parents, experts, licensed childcare centers and schools nationwide.
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Casey at the Bat


Children’s Music Web Award

The Children's Music Web Award is the only children's entertainment awards program decided by kids.
Casey at the Bat, The Story of Swan Lake, The Sorcerer's Apprentice


  School Library Journal Audio of the Week

School Library Journal, is the leading print magazine, and now SLJ.com serving librarians who work with young people in schools and public libraries. The two resources give librarians up-to-date information needed to integrate libraries into the school curriculum, become leaders in the areas of technology, reading, and information literacy, and create high-quality collections for children and young.
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Casey at the Bat, The Tortoise and the Hare

 
 

ALA Booklist Editors Choice Award

Committed to providing a broad selection of outstanding books that mixes popular appeal with literary excellence, the Books for Youth editorial staff of the American Library Association chooses the best-of-the-year fiction, nonfiction, and picture books.
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, The Sorcerer's Apprentice