Chevalier The Queen's Mouseketeer: Volume One: The Hero's Quest (Fantasy Books for Kids 6-10/Fantasy Comic Books for Kid, (Paperback)

"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."

In the magical realm of The Hither and Yon the noble kingdoms of The Land Ever After and The Far, Far Away are on the verge of war. A sinister plot is in play. The young Princess Faere of the land of The Shire, betrothed to Prince Charming of the Land Ever After, has been mysteriously kidnapped. And all the evidence of the foul deed points to The Far, Far Away.

With his kingdom on the verge of war with Ever After, Chevalier the mouse (a blacksmith who yearns for adventure and fancies himself a dashing "mouseketeer") pledges 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, stop two noble kingdoms on a collision course to war--And fulfill his destiny.

"Chevalier the Queen's Mouseketeer. Volume One: A Hero's Heart" by writer/creator Darryl Hughes and artist Monique MacNaughton is a compilation edition of "Chevalier the Queen's Mouseketeer: The Hither and Yon" and "Chevalier the Queen's Mouseketeer: For Queen and Country", books one and two in the four book "Chevalier the Queen's Mouseketeer" children's fantasy action adventure book series.