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Profiles twenty historically significant women, highlighting their great accomplishments and unique quirks; also includes color caricatures.

While waiting anxiously for others to choose a husband for her, Isabella, the future Queen of Spain, keeps a diary account of her life as a member of the royal family.

Having survived a shipwreck, a princess tries to tell a prince a story whose ending he does not know and thus qualify for his hand in marriage.

Queen Cimorene sends her sixteen-year-old son Daystar into the Enchanted Forest with the only weapon that can combat an evil wizard's magic in an effort to restore the balance of power in the kingdom.

In this fairy tale, loosely based on English and Scottish lore, feisty Princess Rosamond, who prefers good books to good looks, risks her throne and all her wealth to save her father's life.

Presents the life and accomplishments of Alexander the Great, born into the royal family of Macedon and later became a king whose realm extended into Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Presents a short biography of Elizabeth I, and chronicles her royal birth and childhood, the Tudors, exile and eventual imprisonment in the Tower, her ascension to the throne, her rivals, and legacy.

A retelling, based on seventh-century B.C. Assyrian clay tablets, of the wanderings and adventures of the god king, Gilgamesh, who ruled in ancient Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in about 2700 B.

As mysterious threats to his family increase, twelve-year-old Telemakos, still haunted by his ordeal as a government spy and adjusting to the recent loss of an arm, is sent with his baby sister to live with Abreha, the ruler of Himyar, with the warning that, while kind, he is also dangerous and not to be trusted.

Anabel, a talented seamstress, is delighted to be summoned to the Great Castle of Firenze to create a special dress for Princess Isabella Caramella Gorgonzola, but becomes discouraged when her efforts are continually subverted by an unseen sprite.

Cooperatively writing a fairy tale for school, a girl imagines a beautiful princess whose beloved ponies are being stolen by a giant, and a boy conjures up the muscular biker who will guard the last pony in exchange for gold.

Meri sets out on a dangerous voyage across the desert to give her father an important message, and is thrilled to be able to see how the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Queen Clarion, the ruler of Pixie Hollow, goes missing and fairies Beck, Prilla, and Lily investigate her disappearance and the possible connection it may have to the rare Fairy Pink rose that was taken from Lily's garden.

A feisty eleven-year-old princess embarks on a dangerous mission to find her missing mother, uncovering dark secrets inside and outside the castle walls.

Experience the magic of Disney with this fabulous guide to the best-loved fairy-tale princesses of all time! Includes fascinating background information about each princess -- her hobbies, personality, friends, and enemies, and special moments from her story.