Kids' Lit Quiz

The Kids' Lit Quiz is an annual literature competition, in which teams of four students, aged 10 to 14, work together to answer wide-ranging literary questions.

In 2008 Wayne Mills was given the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award[1] to recognize his achievement in establishing the Kids' Lit Quiz.

[2] He was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the Queen's New Year's Honours in 2011 for meritorious services to education, specifically children's literature.

In August 2018 he was granted Life Membership of Storyline's Children's Literature Trust and Foundation.

The 2004 world final was held on 20 June in Auckland, NZ and the winner was Dunblane High School from Scotland.

[5] The 2010 World Final was held on 14 August in the Performing Arts Centre at Stewart's Melville College in Edinburgh.

The winner was Churchill Road Elementary School from the United States of America, with New Zealand and South Africa taking 2nd and 3rd.

In 2023 a financially constrained World Final was held in the Havelock North Intermediate School Hall.

Unexpectedly in September the Kids' Lit Quiz Patron, Chloe Wright ONZM, died.

In 2024 the quiz expanded after recovering from the Covid pandemic and an inaugural World Final was held in Australia.