Alice Rhea Mitchell holds the B. A. degree from Millsaps College and the M.A.T. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A retired educator, she has authored Interdisciplinary Instruction in Reading Comprehension and Written Communication: A Guide for an Innovative Curriculum (1993), My Mama's Closet (2013), Scooter Mouse and the Teddy Bears (2016, 2018), Our Game (2017), Scooter Mouse and Rabbit (2019), Scooter Mouse Finds the Library (2019), and Scooter Mouse Finds Christmas (2021).