Tedd Arnold
Recognized in the Creative Minds Montessori 2026 Teacher’s Choice list.
Tedd Arnold is one of roughly one hundred authors whose work was selected by the Montessori-certified teachers at Creative Minds Montessori for the 2026 Teacher’s Choice list — 120 books chosen across four reading stages, from first lap-reads to first chapter books. The selected book was chosen for how precisely it meets children at a real developmental moment. This recognition cannot be bought: no author or publisher paid to appear on our lists, and we take no commission on any book sale.
About Tedd Arnold
Tedd Arnold writes and illustrates the Fly Guy easy readers, a series of 34 books, and has won three Theodor Seuss Geisel Honors — for Hi! Fly Guy, I Spy Fly Guy and Noodleheads See the Future. He also wrote the picture books Parts and Green Wilma, and lives outside Gainesville, Florida.
Fly Guy began on a car trip, when a fly flew in and buzzed at the windshield: Arnold started drawing it and realised that the one word a fly can say, 'buzz', is also a boy's name. He says many third and fourth graders have told him the Fly Guy books are the first they wanted to read on their own.
Also by this author: Fly Guy Meets Fly Girl! · Hooray for Fly Guy! · Parts
Publisher page: www.scholastic.com/teachers/teaching-tools/articles/authors/tedd-arnold.html
Selected for the 2026 Teacher’s Choice list
Part of The Best Children’s Books by Age, chosen by the teachers at Creative Minds Montessori in Frisco, TX.