Background
Lynne Cherry was born on January 5, 1952 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, into the family of Herbert B. and Helen (Cogan) Cherry.
2001 N 13th St, Philadelphia, PA 19122, United States
Lynne earned an art degree at Tyler School of Art.
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Lynne earned a Masters in History at Yale University.
2001 N 13th St, Philadelphia, PA 19122, United States
Lynne earned an art degree at Tyler School of Art.
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Lynne earned a Masters in History at Yale University.
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1995
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Environmental activist illustrator author
Lynne Cherry was born on January 5, 1952 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, into the family of Herbert B. and Helen (Cogan) Cherry.
Lynne earned an art degree at Tyler School of Art and a Master's in History at Yale University.
In 1973, Cherry moved north to New York City, where jobs with publishing companies were plentiful. She was quickly hired by Platt & Munk, Bronx, where she worked as a paste-up artist and designer until moving to Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1974 to work as a book designer. Doing illustration work for Xerox Education Publications in Connecticut convinced Cherry to make the break and become her own boss; in 1975, at the age of twenty-three, she began devoting her time to illustration.
Nowadays Lynne Cherry is an author, illustrator, filmmaker, and environmental lecturer. She has been artist-in-residencies at Princeton University, The Smithsonian Institution, and Cornell University. She was a recipient of the Metcalf Fellowship and has received science writing fellowships from the Marine Biological Lab and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Many of her books have appeared on Reading Rainbow. Lynne lectures widely — and passionately — about how children can make a difference. Her books and films show kids can help create a better world.
Lynne's "Young Voices for the Planet" films are wonderful for integrating into STEM, ethics, citizen-science, and civic engagement. Non-profit organizations such as Audubon, Earth Force, and GLOBE use Cherry’s film "Dreaming in Green" as the inspirational piece in their Energy Audit workshops. This film features four Florida middle school girls who save their school $53,000 in energy costs. A Harvard professor uses "Kids vs. Global Warming" in his ethics classes. Tropical Audubon is using Olivia's Birds and the Oil Spill in their Florida Educator programs.
Lynne is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook and the Woods Hole Research Center in Falmouth.
Lynne Cherry has written and illustrated over thirty award-winning books for children."How We Know What We Know about Our Changing Climate", co-authored with photojournalist Gary Braasch, won the AAAS/Subaru Award and 14 other awards. Her best-selling books such as "The Great Kapok Tree" and "A River Ran Wild" teach children a respect for the earth, have sold over a million copies and are translated into many languages.
Cherry's "The Young Voices for the Planet" films have been screened widely including at the UN, the COP15 climate talks in Copenhagen, conferences, schools, and science centers and museums such as the American Museum of Natural History City and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. They have been included in many film festivals and toured with Mountainfilm at Telluride's and Wild & Scenic's traveling film festivals. Many groups, including NSF, NEA, NWF are using the films and have linked to them on their website.
Lynne is an environmental activist whose books are used to launch campaigns to save land, clean up rivers, save forests, and help migratory birds. She lobbies for anti-smoking legislation (in public places) and Solar Energy Research and Development.
Quotations: “My philosophy of life is that I must compensate for my existence by trying to make the world a better place.”
Lynne is an avid canoeist and hiker.
