And at the heart of it all-whether they're fleeing flyswatters or learning about snakes, bees, or dinosaurs-is an unlikely friendship. After that, it's one zany adventure after another. The judges scoff until they see all the extraordinary tricks this little guy can do. The fun begins when Buzz enters his winged buddy in the Amazing Pet Competition. 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. Tedd and his wife were on a trip and he figured out that the car can be great to brainstorm in. In the back of his mind, he had the idea that it could be a fun thing to have a fly star in a series. 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. He pulled a story and it became a picture book called Green Wilma which was about a girl that becomes a frog that chases a fly in her school.
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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