Eliot-Pearson Awards

The Eliot-Pearson Award for Excellence in Children’s Media is an award given biennially to honor outstanding contributions in the field of children’s media. The award is given by the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development[1] and the Film and Media Studies Program at Tufts University[2] at Tufts University.[3] The award is given to organizations, individuals, or companies that have made important inroads in the world of children’s media.

The Award is known as an “Abby,” named after Abigail Adams Eliot, a woman who, along with Elizabeth Pearson, is credited with helping to establish the early childhood movement of the first part of the 20th century, when they established the Ruggles Street Nursery School in Boston to serve children living in poverty in 1922. This school became affiliated with Tufts University and, in 1964, became the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study.