Barry louis polisar biography sampler

American musician and writer

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

Works

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.^[1][2]

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 1977 song "All I Want Is You" was featured during the opening credits of Jason Reitman's