Tedd Arnold

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Meet Tedd Arnold

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BiographyBorn in Elmira, New York on january 20, 1949Grew up in a family of six, and is one of four boys.Moved to Gainesville and received a fine arts degree at the University of Florida.He met his wife Carol in Florida and now has two sons , walter and william.Lives in Elmira, New York currently.

InterestingFactsHe has now published over 50 books as author and illustratorHad many jobs before he started to write children's lit. (newspaper boy, soldier, hamburger cook, popcorn popper at a movie theater, worm counter, designer, and advertiser)Tedd's interests include tennis, sketching, reading, coin collecting, and the computer.He tried writing and illustrating his own stories, accumulating rejection slips for six years.Two-time winner of the ALA's Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor for Hi! Fly Guy and more recently, I Spy Fly Guy

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