A Pet for Fly Guy (Fly Guy #21)

by Tedd Arnold (Author)

A Pet for Fly Guy (Fly Guy #21)
Reading Level: K − 1st Grade
Series: Fly Guy
What is the right pet for Fly Guy?

In the first zany, hilarious Fly Guy picture book, Buzz tries to help Fly Guy find the right pet. It seems that everyone else at the park has a pet, so Fly Guy wants one, too. A dog licked Fly Guy. A frog chased Fly Guy. A cricket was too jumpy. Who will be the best pet for Fly Guy?

Kids will love Fly Guy and Buzz's wacky search for the right pet. Tedd Arnold's signature illustration style and fun story will appeal to fans of the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling Fly Guy reader series as well as young readers discovering Fly Guy for the first time.
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Kirkus

Readers will agree that being a pet isn’t a bad life, as long as you have a good pet keeper. (Picture book. 4-8)

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School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 2--Fly Guy's latest adventure is in picture-book format. While on a picnic at the park, Buzz and Fly Guy watch people playing with their zany pets. It seems everyone has a pet...except Fly Guy. The two friends head to the pet shop but have no luck. They go back to the park and search some more, yet the right pet can't be found. After reexamining the type of pet Fly Guy really needs, they come to an excellent conclusion. This heartwarming story offers broad appeal. The highly demonstrative characters, with their oversize golf ball-like eyes, are pictured in one hilarious scene after another. The amazingly bright, layered watercolors with their colored-pencil "scribbles," outlined in black, offer a new richness to the illustrations not matched in the easy-reader format. This humorous selection is fun to read aloud but is also well designed for new readers. The simple text is well placed on each page, including occasional thought and speech bubbles that are easy to follow. Children who have enjoyed other books about Buzz and Fly Guy will love this one, too.--Gaye Hinchliff, King County Library System, WA

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Publishers Weekly

Buzz and Fly Guy's enormous bug eyes loom all the larger in Arnold's picture book spinoff. Harkening back to the pet-adoption theme of Hi! Fly Guy (2005), the first title in the author's bestselling early chapter book series, this story brings Buzz and his pet to the park, where they see kids playing with unorthodox pets: one girl is toting her fish's aquarium around in a red wagon, while another child has put on boots, thick gloves, and a helmet worthy of a welder in order to play with a porcupine. "No petz!" utters a forlorn Fly Guy, realizing his own lack of a pet and prompting Buzz to take him to a pet store. When none of the prospects there or back in the park fits the bill--a cat swats at him, and a (friendly) spider's web is "too tangly"--Fly Guy hits on a solution that suits both fine ("Buzz iz petz!"). The high-spirited friendship between these ever-quirky buddies translates well into the picture-book format, which gives Arnold's digital cartoons even more room to fly. Ages 4-8. (May)

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Review quotes

- A 2015 Children's Choice Book Award Finalist

Praise for HI! FLY GUY

"Readers drawn by the flashy foil cover will stick around to applaud this unusually capable critter." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY



Praise for FLY HIGH, FLY GUY!

"A shoo-in for kids who prefer their beginning readers funny and action-packed." —KIRKUS REVIEWS



Praise for RIDE, FLY GUY, RIDE!

"Clear type, bright white space, and careful word choice make this a must-read for children ready for books a little more challenging than Elephant and Piggie." —KIRKUS REVIEWS
Tedd Arnold
Tedd Arnold is the illustrator and, with Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss, co-author of the Noodlehead series, a humorous, award-winning, comic-book-style series for ages six to nine. The series includes Noodelhead Nightmares, Noodlesheads Find Something Fishy, and Noodleheads See the Future, which received a Theodor Seuss Honor Award for books for new readers. He is also author and illustrator of the widely popular Fly Guy books. Tedd lives in New York and Florida.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780545316156
Lexile Measure
370
Guided Reading Level
K
Publisher
Orchard Books
Publication date
April 29, 2014
Series
Fly Guy
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV002140 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Insects, Spiders, etc.
JUV002190 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Pets
Library of Congress categories
Humorous stories
Pets
Flies
Parents Choice Awards (Spring)
Recommended 2014 - 2014
Colorado Children's Book Award
Nominee 2016 - 2016

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