[2] Born in Philadelphia, Cherry attended the Tyler School of Art and received her teaching degree from Temple University.

She has also founded and directed two non-profit organizations, the Center for Children's Environmental Literature and Young Voices for the Planet.

Lynne has written and/or illustrated over 30 books including "How Groundhog's Garden Grew", "If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries: Poems for Children and their Parents" by Judith Viorst, "Flute's Journey" (a book about the trials and tribulations of a wood thrush named Flute) (bird migration), and "A River Ran Wild" (which discusses the history, the pollution, and eventual cleanup of the Nashua River in Massachusetts).

The films have been licensed by National Geographic, the Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation (CELF), Earth Day Network and dozens of other organizations and are used widely by educators to help develop youth self-efficacy, i.e. their belief in themselves to make a difference in the world.

Cherry's Young Voices for the Planet films document: 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[13] 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[14] (Routledge, 2016) and blogs.