"Mark me well, oh my Queen, and of each word do take care.
For of this on my honor, hand to heart, I do swear.
That before two noble kingdoms do in battle ensnare,
I will return from harms way--The young Princess Faere."
Pledging himself before the High Queen of the Far, Far Away to the task of finding the princess Faere, kidnapped by evil betrayers to the kingdom Ever After in a sinister plot to return the realm of Hither and Yon to it's war-like days, mouseketeer Chevalier and his nephew and squire Tom-Tom begin the long journey of their heroes quest to return the kidnapped princess before she is stolen away by the sea--And stop two noble kingdoms on a collision course to war.
"Chevalier the Queen's Mouseketeer: For Queen and Country" by Darryl Hughes and Monique MacNaughton. Book two of the four book "Chevalier the Queen's Mouseketeer" series. It's a fairy tale fantasy adventure of enor-mouse proportions.