Tedd Arnold facts for kids

Tedd Arnold (born January 20, 1949 in Elmira, New York, United States) is a children's book writer and illustrator. He has written and illustrated over 100 books, and he has won the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor for his books "Hi! Fly Guy!" (2006), "I Spy Fly Guy" (2010), and "Noodleheads See the Future" (2018). He currently lives outside of Gainesville, Florida.

Background

Tedd graduated from the University of Florida with a BFA. He worked as a commercial illustrator before beginning his career writing children's books. Arnold met his wife, Carol, while living in Florida. Carol, a former kindergarten teacher, encouraged him to write and illustrate children's books. His sons, Walter and William, served as the inspiration for some of his characters and stories.

List of series

• Fly Guy - Focusing on a friendly fly named Fly Guy and his owner Buzz.
• Huggly (The Monster Under the Bed) - Focusing on the adventures of Huggly, a cute and pudgy green monster with a yellow belly, living under the people child's bed with the help of his best friends Booter and Grubble.
• Parts - Focusing on an inquisitive boy named Chip Block and body parts.

Characters

Main characters

• Fly Guy - A brown fly who is the main character of the Fly Guy series.
• Buzz - A young boy who is Fly Guy's owner.
• Chip Block - The main character of Parts series.
• Huggly - A cute and pudgy male green monster, the main character of The Monster Under the Bed series, with dark teal scales on his back, orange spots and a yellow tummy. He's shy and quiet, and can be somewhat klutzy. His belly is slightly bigger than Grubble's is. In the PC games, his tummy is lime. He was born on June 17.
• Booter - A purple monster who is Huggly's female best friend with light purple scales, red stripes and a yellow tummy. In the PC games, her tummy is orange while her stripes are orange and her scales are blue. She is very sweet like Huggly and sometimes hyper. She was born on January 9.
• Grubble - An orange monster who is Huggly's male best friend with magenta hair and spots and a yellow tummy. In the PC games, his hair and spots are red. He is also occasionally nervous and vain. He was born on September 28.

Other characters

• People Child - A young boy who lives in Huggly's bedroom.
• People Mother - The People Child's mother.
• People Father - The People Child's father.
• Grandma - Buzz's grandmother in the Fly Guy series.

Awards

Tedd's first book, No Jumping on the Bed! was an IRA-CBC Children's Choice book and was also selected as a Parents Magazine 50 All-Time Best Children's Book. He is a three-time winner of the ALA's Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor for Hi! Fly Guy and for I Spy Fly Guy, and Noodleheads See the Future

Novels for older teens

• Rat Life (Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel, 2008)

Children's books written and illustrated by Tedd Arnold

• future Human Hunting (TBA) about Yeti who tries to Track, Find, Search, Look. and Hunt the Human to Prove his City (populated by Yetis) - This will be adaptated into Paramount Animation's LittleFoot (also written a Screenplay)
• Noodlehead Nightmares (2016)
• Noodleheads See the Future (2017) - 2018 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Honor Book
• Noodleheads Find Something Fishy (2018)
• Noodleheads Fortress of Doom (2019)
• Why Fly Guy? (2017)
• Dirty Gert
• Fix This Mess
• Vincent Paints His House
• Parts
• More Parts
• Even More Parts
• Hi! Fly Guy (2005) - 2006 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Honor Book
• Super Fly Guy (2006)
• Shoo, Fly Guy! (2006)
• There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Fly Guy (2007)
• Fly High, Fly Guy (2008)
• Hooray for Fly Guy (2008)
• I Spy Fly Guy (2009) - 2010 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Honor Book
• Fly Guy Meets Fly Girl
• Buzz Boy and Fly Guy (2010)
• Fly Guy vs. the Flyswatter
• Ride, Fly Guy, Ride
• There's a Fly Guy in my Soup
• Fly Guy and the Frankenfly
• Fly Guy's Amazing Tricks
• A Pet for Fly Guy
• Prince Fly Guy
• Fly Guy's Ninja Christmas
• Fly Guy's Big Family
• Fly Guy and the Aliens
• Attack of the 50 Foot Fly Guy
• Fly Guy Presents: Sharks
• Fly Guy Presents: Space
• Fly Guy Presents: Dinosaurs
• Fly Guy Presents: Firefighters
• Fly Guy Presents: Insects
• Fly Guy Presents: Bats
• Fly Guy Presents: Snakes
• Fly Guy Presents: The White House (2016)
• Fly Guy Presents: Weather (2016)
• Fly Guy Presents Castles
• Fly Guy Presents Police
• Fly Guy Presents Garbage (2019)
• Fly Guy Presents Monster Trucks (2019)
• Huggly Goes to School
• Huggly's Big Mess
• Huggly Gets Dressed
• Huggly's Pizza
• Huggly's Trip to the Beach
• Huggly's Snow Day
• Huggly Goes Camping
• Huggly Takes a Bath
• Huggly's Halloween
• Huggly's Thanksgiving Parade
• Huggly and the Toy Monster
• Huggly's Christmas
• Huggly's Sleep Over
• Huggly's Valentines
• Bialosky's Bedside Books—a collection of the following books:
• Bialosky's Bedtime
• Bialosky's House
• Bialosky's Bumblebees
• Bialosky's Big Mess
• The Simple People
• No More Water in the Tub!
• The Signmaker's Assistant
• Five Ugly Monsters
• Green Wilma
• Green Wilma, Frog in Space
• Catalina Magdalena Hoopensteiner Wallendiner Hogan Logan Bogan Was Her Name
• The Twin Princes
• No Jumping on the Bed! (1987)
• My First Drawing Book
• Help I'm Falling to Bits
• My First Play House
• My First Play Town
• Sounds
• Opposites
• Actions
• Colors
• Ollie Forgot (1988)
• Mother Goose's Words of Wit and Wisdom

Illustrator, or collaboration only

• Detective Blue by Steve Metzger
• The Yuckiest, Stinkiest, Best Valentine Ever by Brenda Ferber
• Axle Annie and the Speed Grump by Robin Pulver
• Lasso Lou and Cowboy McCoy by Barbara Larmon Failing
• My Dog Never Says Please by Suzanne Williams
• Giant Children by Brod Bagert
• My Working Mom by Peter Glassman
• Looking for Zebra: Hotel Zoo: Happy Hunting from A to Z by Ron Atlas
• Inside a House That Is Haunted by Alyssa Capucilli
• Tracks by David Galef
• My First Gamebook by Katy Dobbs
• My First Baking Book by Rena Coyle
• My First Computer Book by David Schiller, David Rosenbloom
• My First Camera Book by Anne Kostick
• Inside a Zoo in the City by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
• The Roly Poly Spider by Jill Sardegna
• Inside a Barn in the Country: A Rebus Read-Along Story by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
• Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? Harry Bliss, David Catrow, Marla Frazee, Jerry Pinkney, Chris Raschka, Judy Schachner, David Shannon, Mo Willems Jon Agee
• Manners Mash-Up
• Dinosaur Dig: Cooperative Game-In-A Book by Liza Schafer, Vincent Ceci, Jacqueline Swensen
• Guys Write For Guys Read by Jon Scieszka

PC games

• Huggly's Sleepover: I'm Ready for Kindergarten (October 4, 1996)
• Huggly Saves the Turtles: Thinking Adventures (July 8, 2000)