Presents information about the life of the fourteenth-century Persian noblewoman who was captured and sold into slavery as a child, but whose intelligence, beauty, and compassion led her to become princess, and eventually ruler of Kirman after the death of her husband.

Brings to life the story of Isabella of Castile, a 15th century Spanish princess whose revolutionary thinking made possible a unified Spain and the discovery of America.

"It's time for little Julius, who will grow up to become the most powerful person in the Roman Republic, to put on his toga, attend the dinner banquet, and eat his fowl, boiled camel's feet, baked dormouse, and peas!"--