Alice and Jerry was a basal reader educational series published and used in classrooms from the mid-1930s to the 1960s.
[1] Both the Alice & Jerry series and the competing Dick & Jane series of textbooks were designed to be taught using the "Look and Say" method, rather than being taught using a Phonics-centric teaching method.
[3] The "Alice and Jerry" series followed patterns similar to the Dick and Jane readers, which are now better known in the United States.
The "Alice and Jerry" books were published by Row, Peterson and Company, which later became part of HarperCollins.
Nearly all the books were written by Mabel O'Donnell, who also wrote an Anglicisation of the series, named Janet and John.