


After this, Tedd quit his day job and moved the family back to Elmira to work as a full time author and illustrator. After graduating from the University of Florida and getting married, he and his wife Carol started their family in Tallahassee where Tedd worked as a textbook illustrator, graphic designer, and in the field of advertising for ten years before publishing his first book. It was here that he took his first art lessons- classes that would benefit him later in life as an illustrator.

His father's work then required that they move to Gainesville, Florida. His family lived on a farm in Pennsylvania for several years then returned to Elmira when Tedd was ten years old. He grew up in a family of six with three brothers. The Arnold Family, left to right, Tedd, Carol, Walter (age 23) and William (age 19), September, 2004.
