The 2007 Kids’ Lit Quiz World Final will be held in Oxford, on the 9 July. Seven international teams from China (The International School of Beijing), England (Aylesbury High School), New Zealand (St Cuthbert's College), Northern Ireland (Wellington College), Scotland (George Heriot's School) and South Africa (Grove School Cape Town) will be battling it out to win the trophy and some fantastic prizes.
Teams of four children aged 12-13 will be answering questions on children’s literature and reading put to them by the dynamic quizmaster, New Zealander, Professor Wayne Mills, who invented the KLQ. To reach this stage each team will have won a regional heat and their national final.
The World Final of the KLQ will be held at the Unipart Conference Centre Oxford. There will be a capacity audience of over 300, made up of school children from local schools, 23 authors, including local writers Philip Pullman and Rachael Wing. There will also be editors, publishers, teachers, librarians, friends and family, as well as the Leader of the County Council, two mayors, and officers from the DfES.
It is the first time that a World Final has taken place outside New Zealand, and the event has aroused much interest in the world of children’s literature. The World Final will be followed by a Gala Celebration Dinner at the same venue, and is one day out of a week of organised activities for these very talented young readers, which is their prize for reaching the KLQ World Final.
Funded entirely by sponsorships, the equivalent of £35,000, made up of cash donations and sponsorships in kind, has been raised since the end of December by the three volunteer organisers, of which I am one.
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