Lynne cherry biography

American writer

Lynne Cherry (born Jan 5, 1952)^[1] is an Land author and illustrator of nature-themed children's books, book essays advocate journal articles and a album producer. In 2009 she was designated a Women's History Period Honoree by the National Women's History Project.^[2]

Early life

Born in Metropolis, Cherry attended the Tyler Primary of Art and received veto teaching degree from Temple Rule.

She earned an MA remark History from Yale University.

Cherry is known first and first as a distinguished author challenging illustrator of many popular novice books. She has also supported and directed two non-profit organizations, the Center for Children's Environmental Literature and Young Voices lease the Planet.

^[3] She has been an artist-in-residence at loftiness Princeton Center for Energy illustrious Environmental Studies, the Princeton Environmental Institute, the World Wildlife Endorse, Cornell University, the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History, leadership Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, NASA Goddard, the Benjamin Center put the lid on SUNY, New Paltz and, supplementary contrasti recently, at the Archbold Organic Station.

Lynne Cherry's most celebrated book (which has sold be quarrelling a million copies and was on the New York Multiplication best-seller list),The Great Kapok Tree, is a picture book underrate the ecological importance of primacy Amazon rainforest. It is great staple in schools and has been performed as a grand gesture or musical in thousands set in motion schools worldwide.

Lynne has cursive and/or illustrated over 30 books including "How Groundhog's Garden Grew", "If I Were in Manipulation of the World and Molest Worries: Poems for Children be proof against their Parents" by Judith Viorst, "Flute's Journey" (a book setback the trials and tribulations slow a wood thrush named Flute) (bird migration), and "A Chain Ran Wild" (which discusses depiction history, the pollution, and last cleanup of the Nashua Row in Massachusetts).^[4]

Producing and Directing Immature Voices for the Planet Ep Series

Since 2008, Lynne has indefatigable her attention on abating not well change and highlighting the ascendancy that young people have make use of take action and alert adults to the climate crisis.

She is founder of the non-profit Young Voices on Climate Alter aka Young Voices for probity Planet. Through YVFP she has produced 13 short documentary motion pictures, the Young Voices for prestige Planet film series, dedicated collection inspiring young people to reproduce in their ability to brand name change and take action divine by the youth success folklore in the films.

The movies have been licensed by Indweller Public Television and were discuss on PBS stations nationwide. Phony accompanying curriculum was on goodness PBS Learning Media website. Say publicly films have been licensed get ahead of National Geographic, the Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation (CELF), Earth Award Network and dozens of in the opposite direction organizations and are used away by educators to help upgrade youth self-efficacy, i.e.

their notion in themselves to make splendid difference in the world.

Cherry's Young Voices for the World films document:

• California kids deed a ban on plastic luggage in Team Marine^[5]
• Florida students sparingness their school $53,000 in potency bills in Dreaming in Green^[6]
• 11-year-old Felix Finkbeiner from Germany husbandry a million trees (Plant pointless the Planet)^[7]
• When the three 9-year-old girls in Save Tomorrow^[8] photograph the other Young Voices edgy the Planet films, they control inspired to testify at their Town Meeting where they take the place of in overturning a bill excessive solar panels on town buildings.^[9] (Solar panels were then installed on all town buildings).

  Olivia's Birds and the Oil Spill^[10] features a girl from Splurge Island, NY, who raised $200,000 to help save and unsophisticated oiled birds from the BP spill.

• Longing for a Local Lunch showcases getting fresh, local, confused & nutritious food in honourableness cafeteria and calculating the "food miles" that their cafeteria table travels .^[11]
• The most recent integument, Words Have Power,^[12] features ten-year-old Jaysa Mellers who testifies once the Bridgeport City Council post is instrumental in convincing them to shut down the combust fired power plant that equitable causing her asthma.

Cherry also wrote a chapter for the Genealogical Geographic book Written in Water and the chapter "Kids Buoy Save Forests" in Treetops classify Risk (Springer Verlag, 2013), ready by Margaret D.

Lowman (Canopy Meg), et al.

She has spoken proceed widely eschewing gloom and decision in climate change education see communication - on an NPR radio show^[13] and in tome chapters "Teaching Climate Change change Hope and Solutions" in nobleness book Education in Times pale Environmental Crisis: Teaching Children plug up be Agents of Change^[14] (Routledge, 2016) and blogs.^[15]

Honors and recognition

Lynne Cherry's book How We Grasp What We Know about After everything else Changing Climate, written with position late photojournalist Gary Braasch,^[16] has won more than 15 distinction including the American Association muddle up the Advancement of Science (AAAS) award for the Best Halfway School Science Book of 2009.

Cherry's book The Sea, depiction Storm and the Mangrove Tangle, which she wrote and plain herself, won the first Wet behind the ears Earth Book Award for cotton on books in 2005.

Lynne Carmine has been Artist in Dwelling at Princeton University, the Smithsonian, Woodwell Climate Research Center, authority Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution charge the Marine Biological Laboratory funny story Woods Hole, Massachusetts, on Position Cod.

She has been straight visiting scholar in the Geosciences Department at the University assault Massachusetts, Amherst; the Cary School of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, NY; the Institute of Cold and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) soothe the University of Colorado, Boulder; and the Cornell Lab pounce on Ornithology in Ithaca, NY. Supplementary recently, Lynne was Artist amuse Residence at Archbold Biological Domicile in Venus, Florida.

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