Since its 2005 debut with Hi! Fly Guy, the series has sold over 8 million copies and spawned a nonfiction Fly Guy Presents series as well. Once that idea came up, I knew it was too good to pass up." "It suddenly hit me that the one word a fly can say is ' BUZZ,' and that that was also a boy's name. From that point on, says Arnold, he always had in the back of his mind that it might be fun to have a fly as an ongoing book character.įly Guy was born a few years later when Arnold was doodling on a road trip with his wife, and a fly kept buzzing against the windshield. The idea got its start in an earlier picture book, Green Wilma, about a girl who turns into a frog and chases a fly through her school. Tedd Arnold's mega-bestselling Fly Guy series of early readers spotlights the adventures of a bug-eyed boy named Buzz and his pet fly.
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