ZZinema! Fly Guy and the Alienzz by Tedd Arnold

A boy named Buzz had a pet fly. Buzz liked the fly because he could say his name perfectly... BUZZ!

One day Buzz said, "Hey, Fly Guy, I'm making a movie, It will be about aliens! Aliens are guys that come from space."

"BIRDZZZ?" asked Fly Guy.

Buzz draws some alien characters for Fly Guy to see and glues them to sticks. He also draws himself and Fly Guy as stick puppets and provides a backdrop, a cool Secret Hero Fort for his two space adventurers. He turns a flashlight into an alien spaceship with a killer ray gun and makes a solid gold space ship for the heroes.

Buzz sets up his phone as the movie camera.

"QUIET ON THE SET. ACTION!"

Fly Guy and Buzz-Boy cruise through space until they are attacked by space alienzz with the deadly light ray guns on their space ship. Their ship crashes into their fort, but Fly Guy manages to escape. He is joined by Fly Girl and together they zoom into space to save Buzz-Boy from space pirates and from Dragon Dude, who counter-attack with galactic fly swatters. The pirates capture the solid gold spaceship with Buzz-Boy still a prisoner inside and blast off into Deep Space.

Oh, no! Is Buzz-Boy a prisoner, lost in space?

"OOPS!" says Buzz. "we must make a movie sequel and rescue Buzz-Boy!"

"YEZZ!" says Fly Guy.

To Be Continued!

It's now an outer space series, in Tedd Arnold's latest in his own long-running and best-selling beginning readers stories, Fly Guy and the Alienzz (Fly Guy 18) (Scholastic/Cartwheel Books, 2018). Learning to read can be difficult, but veteran author-illustrator Tedd Arnold is able to rescue youngsters from the reading jitters with his hilarious drawings and far-out funny stories of a boy and his compound-eyed best buddy.“Fans of the series won't be disappointed in this easy-to-read intergalactic adventure” is the buzz from School Library Journal.

For more out-of-sight easy and silly stories by this author, lift off story time with Tedd Arnold's Parts (Picture Puffin Books), More Parts (Picture Puffin Books) and Even More Parts for some gloriously giggle-fest, out-of-body anatomy lessons.

Oh, YEZZZ! Fly Guy's Amazing Tricks by Tedd Arnold

THE AMAZING FLY GUY CIRCUS
TODAY!

Buzz's best buddy Fly Guy has learned some new tricks to amaze and delight his neighborhood friends.

"Get ready," said Buzz. "NOW... the BACKSTROKE!"/

Fly Guy swims the backstroke across the bird bath.

Then he demonstrates the "Dizzy Doozy," flying in a spiral around a girl's head. She's dizzy, but she's not delighted.

Luckily, just then Buzz's mom calls him to supper. He can't resist showing off Buzz's new tricks to his parents. Buzz does the backstroke in Mom's milk. He does the Dizzie Doozy around Dad's head. And for his finale, he does the Big Booger, hanging from Dad's nose.

Buzz's parents are not delighted either.

So after dinner Buzz takes Fly Guy outside.

"I have an idea," he tells Fly Guy. "Do your tricks only when I say NOW!"

Just then a big kid comes along, slurping a milkshake.

"Are you talking to a bug, Bug Brains?" he sneers.

"Answer me, NOW!" yelled the big kid!

"YEZZZ!" said Fly Guy.

Fly Guy goes into action. He backstrokes in the big kid's milkshake, does the Dizzy Doozy around his head, and the Big Booger on his nose. Grossed out, the big kid staggers backward, right into a garbage can, which turns over and releases reinforcements--a swarm of a zillion unhappy flies who chase the bully until he's out of sight.

It's another case of an unlikely friendzhip, as Fly Guy once more savezz the day, in Tedd Arnold's Fly Guy's Amazing Tricks (Fly Guy 14) (Cartwheel Books). Beginning readers love Arnold's googly-eyed characters and the easy-reading vocabulary in this best-selling zeries, great for practicing their reading skills over the summer (but don't tell them that's what they're doing). Just enjoy the gigglez as Fly Guy does his thing. Pair this one with Tedd Arnold's recent top-selling Fly Guy and the Alienzz (Fly Guy 18), NOW!

"Arnold's distinctive and expressive black-dotted, ball-eyed characters and occasional plays on words will keep young readers smiling and rooting for this duo," sayzzz School Library Journal.

I'm Going on a Fly Hunt! Tiny Little Fly by Michael Rosen

MY, OH, MY.
TINY LITTLE FLY.

TINY LITTLE FLY.
GREAT BIG TOES.

TINY LITTLE FLY
SITS ON ELEPHANT'S NOSE.

Fly may be tiny, but he thinks BIG. Slipping away from Great Big Elephant's lusty swat, he flies on to new challenges. There's Great Big Hippo, who may not have a trunk, but has the heft to squash Tiny Little Fly. Except Fly is too fast for him, too.

Then there's the tempting clawed toes of Great Big Tiger just ahead. Just the place to light. But not if Tiger has anything to say about that maneuver...

GREAT BIG TIGER WINKS ONE EYE, SAYS
"I'M GOING TO CATCH THAT FLY!"

Michael Rosen, author of the classic toddler participation tale, We're Going on a Bear Hunt (Classic Board Books), in his latest, Tiny Little Fly (Candlewick, 2010) works with Irish illustrator Kevin Waldron to produce a clever little tale of the underdog who takes on the great big beasts of storybook land. Little ones will easily identify with the tiny protagonist in this simple tale. Waldron's beasts are BIG, filling up the page with color and self-confidence as they pursue the little guy with all their power, but Tiny Little Fly exuberantly has the last word:

"SEE YOU ALL SOON.
BYE, EVERYONE, BYE!"

Latest Buzz: Buzz Boy and Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold

ONE NIGHT BUZZ SAID, "I MADE A BOOK.

WE ARE SUPER HEROES!"

"HEROZZZZ?" SAID FLY GUY.

After his first venture into romance in his top-selling Fly Guy Meets Fly Girl and his Geisel Award-winning appearance in Hi! Fly Guy (Theodore Seuss Geisel Honor Book (Awards)) wouldn't any talking housefly/pet be feeling invincible?

Well, Tedd Arnold's stars of the beginning reader galaxy are back again in his new Buzz Boy And Fly Guy (Scholastic, 2010), in which the indomitable two become super herozzz whose mission is to reclaim their property and destroy a dragon--or, in Fly Guy's own words ....

"TIME TO TAKE CARE OF BUZZ-NESS!"

It all begins at bedtime, when Buzz the Boy beds down with his best buddy, Fly Guy. But it's not sleepytime yet for the two friends. Buzz pulls out his own graphic novel starring the dynamic duo, in which Buzz shrinks to the size of his pet fly and--SHAZAM! POW! WHAM! Buzz becomes.... BUZZ BOY! Dragons? NO SWEAT!! Pirates? NO PROBLEM!

With this dynamic musca domestica duo on the job, the world is made safe for a boy and his fly, and at last it's time for...beddy bye for Buzz and Fly Guy. It's all good fun in the inimitable Tedd Arnold style, and his ever-popular googly-eyed guy and his fly remain the super heroes of early reading skills. Don't buzz off any time soon, boys!

Come Fly With Me! Fly Guy Meets Fly Girl by Tedd Arnold

Buzz and Fly Guy went walking.

A girl was running. A fly was chasing her.

"Don't worry," said Buzz. "Flies aren't pests. They are pets!"

"I know!" said the girl. "This is my pet. Her name is Fly Girl."

Talk about your cute meets! In the best movieland romance tradition, Fly Guy and Fly Girl are instant soul mates. Fly Guy can say his boy's name--"BUZZ!" but Fly Girl can say her girl's name, too--"LIZZ!" Any aeronautical maneuver that Fly Guy can muster, Fly Girl can match or best. They share a common interest in disgusting green goos of all kinds. And the attraction is mutual between them. Soon the two are muttering sweet nothings to each other:

"WUZZLE WUZZLE!

WUZZY WUZZA?"

In no time the two muscae domesticae are pitching serious woo and thinking of setting up their own domestic partnership in an empty dog food can with "Home Sweet Home" over the door. But what about Buzz and Liz? Can the two enamoradas abandon their best friends even for domestic bliss in the garbage dumpster?

Author-illustrator Tedd Arnold takes on this romantic dilemma in the latest in his award-winning Fly Guy series in Fly Guy Meets Fly Girl (Scholastic, 2010). With a beginning reader vocabulary and chapter headings which give it the look of an early chapter reader, this one is bound to be popular with fans of these very popular emergent reader books. For more Fly Guy fun, pair this one with There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Fly Guy.