Cheryl Rosebush is a former Canadian journalist who has spent the last 12 years as a communications specialist on forest protection and climate change for international organizations, including the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Bank’s Forest Funds, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. This work has taken Cheryl to developing countries across Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America, where she has seen, firsthand, the depth of nature’s beauty and the urgent need to protect it.
In 2020, Cheryl added a new audience to her communications work, by launching an environmental children’s book series called “What the World Needs Now”. The series aims to connect young kids (ages 4-8) to the importance of nature, and our place in it. Each book in the series follows a friendly animal through its habitat, helping kids to learn about one thing the world needs now, be it more trees or bees or less plastic, to maintain a healthy planet. The series is designed to help parents and educators lay the foundation for future learning on the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. But for our littlest kids, the connection starts at a much simpler point: their first job is to fall in love with nature – because you don’t protect what you don’t love.
All books in the What the World Needs Now series are available on:
Environmentalkids.com (USA)
Environmentalkids.ca (Canada)