![]() He worked for six years before selling No Jumping on the Bed, his first book. Each evening after work I rushed to the library, brought home piles of children’s books and studied them cover to cover.”Īrnold began writing his own stories and illustrating the images they conjured up. “The words and artwork in those gorgeous picture books reminded me of the captioned cartoons I drew in high school or the advertisements I wrote and illustrated every day. “Even in the Army I used my art when I learned I could get out of a lot of boring work and training by offering to paint murals on the barracks walls.”Īrnold’s wife, Carol, taught kindergarten during his advertising days and frequently brought home books she used in the classroom. After graduating from the University of Florida with a degree in art, Arnold got a job illustrating science textbooks and later, advertisements. He filled his high school history notebook with drawings of his own left hand-being a right-handed artist. In junior high, Arnold took his first formal art lessons from an old man in a studio above the Happy Pool Hall in Gainesville, Florida. ![]() Cartoons decorated his papers and desk top throughout elementary school. ![]() ![]() Tedd Arnold has been a soldier, a hamburger cooker, and a worm counter he’s illustrated school books, delivered newspapers and popped popcorn. ![]()
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