{"id":48,"date":"2012-05-13T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/"},"modified":"2012-05-16T16:34:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T15:34:13","slug":"janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/","title":{"rendered":"Janet and John or Alice and Gerry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- skool-response -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Many kids were brought up on Janet and John<br \/>\nYou could say the old-fashioned way, but was it the best way<br \/>\nInnocence really did exist in these days.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1743\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/janet-john.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1743\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1743\" title=\"janet-john\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/janet-john.jpg\" alt=\"Janet and John books\" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/janet-john.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/janet-john-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/janet-john-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/janet-john-377x300.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janet and John Books<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mabel O&#8217;Donnell and Rona Munro from New Zealand, and published by Row Peterson. Originally there wer known as Alice for Janet and Gerry for John.<\/p><div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:5px 0 5px 0; text-align:center;\">\nskool\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Then James Nisbet bought the rights to them and republished the stories as Janet and John in the UK. Janet and John were portrayed as average English children, living a typical middle-class life, and the books consisted of stories that progressively incorporated key words needed in the development of reading skills.<\/p>\n<p>These books were fully adopted by schools and became a major source for reading in the 1960&#8217;s for school children.<\/p>\n<p>In the early seventies, Janet and John\u2019s straightforward and simple world was seen as being outdated and the books fell out of favour and were soon surpassed by the ladybird books of Peter and Jane.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/\"><img width=\"125\" height=\"99\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/janet-john-160x127.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Janet and John books\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/janet-john-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/janet-john-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/janet-john-377x300.jpg 377w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/janet-john.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/a><p>Many kids were brought up on Janet and John You could say the old-fashioned way, but was it the best way Innocence really did exist in these days. Mabel O&#8217;Donnell and Rona Munro from New Zealand, and published by Row &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,27],"tags":[54,53],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cartoon","category-pop-culture","tag-54","tag-53"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Janet and John or Alice and Gerry<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Janet and John or was it Alice and Gerry for you at school. Take a look at the memories of these early learning books.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Skooldays\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Skooldays\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/7737d0880c9ea762e2b2c2475c12a0ca\"},\"headline\":\"Janet and John or Alice and Gerry?\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-05-13T11:23:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-05-16T15:34:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/\"},\"wordCount\":180,\"commentCount\":1,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/janet-john.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"1960\",\"1970\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Cartoon\",\"Pop Culture\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/\",\"name\":\"Janet and John or Alice and Gerry\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/janet-john.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-05-13T11:23:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-05-16T15:34:13+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/7737d0880c9ea762e2b2c2475c12a0ca\"},\"description\":\"Janet and John or was it Alice and Gerry for you at school. Take a look at the memories of these early learning books.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/janet-john.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/janet-john.jpg\",\"width\":\"500\",\"height\":\"397\",\"caption\":\"Janet and John Books\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Janet and John or Alice and Gerry?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Skooldays\",\"description\":\"Nostalgic &amp; Vintage Memorabilia\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/7737d0880c9ea762e2b2c2475c12a0ca\",\"name\":\"Skooldays\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9fbf7095d09bdf296986909afbe3c2cd?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skooldays.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fretromania%2Fimages%2Ffavicon.png&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9fbf7095d09bdf296986909afbe3c2cd?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skooldays.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fretromania%2Fimages%2Ffavicon.png&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Skooldays\"},\"description\":\"This web site and blog is updated regularly with your memories you have forgotten to remember! Capture your past on the new Skoolday Blog\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/\"],\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Janet and John or Alice and Gerry","description":"Janet and John or was it Alice and Gerry for you at school. Take a look at the memories of these early learning books.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Skooldays","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/"},"author":{"name":"Skooldays","@id":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/7737d0880c9ea762e2b2c2475c12a0ca"},"headline":"Janet and John or Alice and Gerry?","datePublished":"2012-05-13T11:23:00+00:00","dateModified":"2012-05-16T15:34:13+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/"},"wordCount":180,"commentCount":1,"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/janet-john.jpg","keywords":["1960","1970"],"articleSection":["Cartoon","Pop Culture"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/","url":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/","name":"Janet and John or Alice and Gerry","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/janet-john.jpg","datePublished":"2012-05-13T11:23:00+00:00","dateModified":"2012-05-16T15:34:13+00:00","author":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/7737d0880c9ea762e2b2c2475c12a0ca"},"description":"Janet and John or was it Alice and Gerry for you at school. Take a look at the memories of these early learning books.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/janet-john.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/janet-john.jpg","width":"500","height":"397","caption":"Janet and John Books"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/janet-and-john-or-alice-and-gerry\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Janet and John or Alice and Gerry?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#website","url":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/","name":"Skooldays","description":"Nostalgic &amp; Vintage Memorabilia","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/7737d0880c9ea762e2b2c2475c12a0ca","name":"Skooldays","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9fbf7095d09bdf296986909afbe3c2cd?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skooldays.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fretromania%2Fimages%2Ffavicon.png&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9fbf7095d09bdf296986909afbe3c2cd?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skooldays.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fretromania%2Fimages%2Ffavicon.png&r=g","caption":"Skooldays"},"description":"This web site and blog is updated regularly with your memories you have forgotten to remember! Capture your past on the new Skoolday Blog","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/"],"url":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3139,"href":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/3139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}