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Tedd Arnold (born January 20, 1949, in Elmira, New York, United States) is an American 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 were 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.




Characters






= Main characters

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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

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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




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

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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

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




References



Keller, James, The Big Book of Picture-Book Authors & Illustrators, Scholastic, 2001, pp. 10–11. ISBN 0-439-20154-3
McElmeel, Sharron L., Children's Authors and Illustrators Too Good to Miss: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies, Libraries Unlimited, 2004, pp. 6–10. ISBN 1-59158-027-7
"Tedd Arnold." Children's Authors. Answers Corporation, 2006. Accessed 25 September 2008,




External links



Official website
Tedd Arnold at Library of Congress, with 82 library catalog records

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