Alice Schertle

About Alice Schertle A prolific and influential American writer, Alice Schertle is extremely well known thanks to her impressive and extensive collection of children's stories. Knowing her market well, she's become an important figure within the literary community, writing about a large range of topics. Her stories are extremely engaging, as she writes in a manner that's highly accessible, while also never speaking down to her readers at any point.

The best place to start is the Cathy And Company series, the earliest of Alice Schertle's multi-book series: it opens with Cathy And Company & The Nosy Neighbor (1980) and runs to 6 books across 1980, ending with Cathy and Company & the Double Dare (1980). Alice Schertle's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Alice Schertle has 57 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1977 and 2026. 19 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Little Blue Truck series with 13 books — and 38 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Alice Schertle's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Cathy And Company (1980, 6 books) and Little Blue Truck (2008–2022, 13 books).

This guide splits Alice Schertle's 57 books into 2 named series and 38 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Little Blue Truck (13 books, 2008–2022); Cathy And Company (6 books, 1980).