"Just letting you know that the Edinburgh KLQ World Final was won by the team from England, followed by Scotland and the NZ team (Belmont Int) was third. The NZ Army Band up in Scotland for the Tattoo came along in their red army uniforms at the start of the quiz and performed a haka. The teams got to see Edinburgh really well as they walked quite a bit. They saw the R L Stevenson bookshop, the Sir Walter Scott monument and the graveyard where Burke and Hare infamously disinterred their corpses. Nicola Morgan wrote about that in her book Fleshmarket. I got to meet Ian Rankin and a host of children’s authors. Nicola Morgan and Keith Gray were the after dinner speakers at the international dinner. The Edinburgh Festival was fantastic just buzzing everyday and I can’t wait to go back with more free time to attend everything."
The 2011 Northland Heat for the Kids' Lit Quiz will be on Friday, 1st April (I'm not joking!) in Kerikeri - that is week 9 of Term 1 next year so everyone will need to get reading over the summer holidays...
The NZ National Final will be in the 3rd week in June, and the World Finals will be in Hamilton, the birthplace of the KLQ, for its 20th year, in July (dates to be confirmed).
