Lynne Cherry

Cherry also wrote a chapter for the National Geographic book Written in Water and the chapter "Kids Can Save Forests" in Treetops at Risk (Springer Verlag, 2013), edited by Margaret D. Lowman (Canopy Meg), et al. She has spoken out widely eschewing gloom and doom in climate change education and communication - on an NPR radio show and in book chapters "Teaching Climate Change with Hope and Solutions" in the book Education in Times of Environmental Crisis: Teaching Children to be Agents of Change (Routledge, 2016) and blogs.

Lynne Cherry's book How We Know What We Know about Our Changing Climate, written with the late photojournalist Gary Braasch, has won more than 15 awards including the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) award for the Best Middle School Science Book of 2009.

Since 2008, Lynne has focused her attention on abating climate change and highlighting the power that young people have to take action and wake up adults to the climate crisis. She is founder and director of the non-profit Young Voices on Climate Change. Through YVCC she has produced 13 short documentary films - the Young Voices for the Planet film series- dedicated to helping young voices be heard by featuring youth success stories. The films are licensed by American Public Television, are currently being broadcast on 60 PBS stations nationwide and have curriculum on the PBS Learning Media website. The films have been licensed by National Geographic, Earth Day Network and dozens of other organizations and are used widely by educators to help develop youth self-efficacy - their belief in themselves to make a difference in the world.

Lynne Cherry (born January 5, 1952) is an American writer and illustrator of nature-themed children's books and a film producer. In 2009 she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project.