Children Who Ruled the World: True Stories Out of Egypt, China, England, France, and Russia is the remarkably true account of young children who woke up one morning to find themselves rulers of their countries. Now, instead of spending the day at school or playing with their friends, they faced not only riots in their streets and invading armies at their borders, but the most dangerous threats of all: brothers and sisters, uncles and cousins – all members, in fact, of their own family.