• Age: 5 to 7
• Grade: k to 2

Dorothy McMoogle, who wants to play the bugle till she's green and hang kumquat colours on every bush and tree, is tired of drab and neat. After Dottie Aunt Lottie's Gloom-O-Meter dings its warning, Dorothy hops into battle with boring grey. A story in rhyme that is an ode to creativity and being true to yourself, and having fun while you're at it.

Bruce Rice has published three books of poetry. Bruce's first collection, Daniel, received the Canadian Authors Association Award. In 2005, The Illustrated Statue of Liberty (Coteau), received a Saskatchewan Book Award. He also received Grain Magazine's 2002 Anne Szumigalksi Award for the best poem or sequence published in Grain that year. Poems from this collection were shortlisted in the 2008 CBC Literary Awards and were commissioned for the opening of the national tour of the Joe Fafard Retrospective Exhibition. His work has appeared in Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, Grain, Canadian Author and Bookman, and Event.

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"...many of the verses are fun and would prove useful in a poetry lesson, focusing on 'nonsense' poetry. The whimsical, imaginative illustrations are very appealing."

-Carolyn Cutt, Resource Links

"Winter's illustrations perfectly fit the wackiness of Rice's text...Dorothy McMoogle with Kumquat and Bugle is an ode to imagination that will resonate deeply with some readers."

-Inderjit Deogun, CM