Mike the Knight magazine launches today

Immediate Media Co has launched Mike the Knight magazine today, an educational children’s title aimed at children aged 3-5 years, based on the hugely popular CBeebies TV programme of the same name.

This new title transports children into Mike the Knight’s wonderful and imaginative medieval world. Sticker pages, competitions, medieval historical facts and unique covermounts encourage role-play so young readers can ‘Be a Knight Do it Right’!

The monthly magazine gives Mike fans the opportunity to meet and interact with Mike and his trainee wizard sister, Evie, on their adventures. With a new mission to solve each month, the title is adventurous, reassuring and funny, using language that’s as energetic and cheeky as the magazine’s young hero. The title is being produced by Immediate Media Co’s award-winning youth and children’s editorial team.

Sara Oldham, Mike the Knight magazine’s editor, adds: “Mike the Knight is the only pre-school programme to invite its viewers into a fantastical world of knights, wizards and dragons and it has captured the imagination of our young readers. We’re delighted to be offering parents an exciting new magazine that invites their children to enter this world, while also encouraging them to develop the skills they need to succeed at school.”

Mike the Knight magazine is priced at £2.50 and is available at all major retailers and independents around the UK.

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Notes to editors:

For more information, please contact:
Jo Franks, Immediate Media Press Office
0207 150 5013 or email joanna.franks@immediate.co.uk

1. Mike the Knight is a 52 part CG-animated series co-production between Hit Entertainment and Nelvana Studio bringing the excitement and enchantment of medieval times into the life of the modern pre-schooler for the very first time. In each action-packed episode, viewers are transported to a world filled with marvellous missions, castles, dragons, Vikings and trolls. Mike is an energetic, cheeky little knight in training, driven by his passion to help others and be the best knight that anyone can be. With the triumphant motto “Be a Knight, do it right” the would-be hero is joined in his adventures by a host of characters including his trusty steed Galahad, two friendly dragons, Squirt and Sparkie, and his sister Evie, a trainee wizard. Follow Mike the Knight on Twitter @miketheknightuk