Loved the way they were drawn

But it's been a very long time. I possibly may have misremembered.

See Tom and Flip!

You can get a book on Amazon with all the books.
Got it for my grandson.
He asked why they were wearing funny shoes & were not wearing sneakers!

then we moved, and that school system used Alice and Jerry, which I liked a whole lot better.

Question: does anyone remember the Martin and Judy storybooks? I had those before I started school. My mom used to read them to me and then when I started reading I read them for myself and also to my younger brothers.

Everything was "by and by" with Alice and Jerry, and I had never heard anyone say that.

Edited to correct "bye" to "by." I still haven't heard it in real life.

I went to a parochial (Catholic) school. I learned about Dick, Jane & Sally later, but I've never heard of Jerry & Alice before now.

But I have a pretty distinct memory of seeing the Dick and, Jane, and Spot books on the? school, or regular library shelves.

to read when I was 4. Before she married my grandpa, she was a first grade teacher. When I started school in 1st grade, I was started in Dick and Jane, but was soon switched to Alice and Jerry “Down the River Road”. Thanks for the fun post evoking long ago memories 😊

For me it was Sally, Dick, and Jane. And sometimes Zeppo.

followed by Tip and Mitten.

Later on, Tom, Betty, Susan, and Flip the dog.

In kindergarten we worked on pre-reading skills--lots of letter recognition and phonics. Then in first grade we began to learn actual decoding using the Janet & Mark readers. I just looked them up; the series was first published in January of 1966 and I started first grade in Los Angeles County in September 1966.