[2] Puddleman, his first major work, starting life as an assignment in university, but was later illustrated by internationally recognized artist Brenda Clark.
He wrote Jump Cut, Coda, and Speed, contributing to the over-arching SEVEN series, published by Orca Books.
In the 1980s, he published several of his own children's picture books, including his first, Puddleman, plus Taking Care of Crumley, Harry and Clare's Amazing Staycation.
[citation needed] Quill & Quire magazine reported on Scholastic Canada bringing together four veterans of children's literature: Ted Staunton, Kevin Sylvester, Richard Scrimger, and Lesley Livingston.
[4] They produced a four-book progressing series, The Almost Epic Squad, about different-aged, different-grade school kids who develop strange superpowers.
With Staunton, contributors to the three SEVEN series include John Wilson, Richard Scrimger, Norah McClintock, Sigmund Brouwer and Shane Peacock.
However, I thought that Ted Staunton followed Frédéric Bourdin's real life story a little bit too closely, and it somewhat spoiled the book for me."