Magnolia Gazette Publishing Corporation (pub: 2013)

Hardback. Signed.

Little girls watch their mothers all of the time, and every mother has an intriguing boutique behind her closet door. When the little girl in My Mama’s Closet by Alice Rhea Mitchell explores her mother’s closet, she decides independently, adjusts accordingly, and emerges confidently to reveal the results. Mothers, daughters, grandmothers, granddaughters, and not a few dads who love them will read My Mama’s Closet again and again; and many a daughter will visit her mother’s closet to enact the lines of this real-life scenario. Eighteen exquisite paintings by watercolorist Sheryl K. Perry vividly depict the little girl’s actions, and multi-colored text propels the plot forward with memorable lines that linger long after the reader turns the last page.

ALICE RHEA MITCHELL, a native of Jackson, Mississippi, holds the B.A. degree from Millsaps College and the M.A.T. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Having taught students at the secondary level in the public schools of Mississippi for twenty-seven years, she has authored Interdisciplinary Instruction in Reading Comprehension and Written Communication: A Guide for an Innovative Curriculum, published by Charles C. Thomas, Publishers, in 1993. She also has penned My Mama’s Closet, published by Magnolia Gazette Publishing Corporation in 2013, Scooter Mouse and the Teddy Bears, published by Magnolia Gazette Publishing Corporation in 2016 and reprinted in 2018, and Our Game, published by White Bird Publications in 2017. She and her husband live in Magnolia, Mississippi.

SHERYL K. PERRY earned the B.B.A. degree with honors from the University of Texas at Austin. She was inspired as a child to be an artist by the pictures in story books. In turn, she continues to be inspired by the free-spirited imagination in art by children. She hopes her illustrations will encourage budding artists to create their own visions. When not painting in watercolor, Sheryl enjoys exploring collage and mixed media. Sheryl’s charming watercolors illustrate Mitchell’s My Mama’s Closet, Scooter Mouse and the Teddy Bears, and Our Game. Sheryl and her husband reside in San Antonio, Texas, with their playful rescue puppy Adele.