How long does it take to read A Grain of Rice?
A Grain of Rice by Helena Clare Pittman takes about 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 44 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1986. 40 pages, about 11,000 words. Written for children.
2 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A clever, cheerful, hard-working farmer's son wins the hand of a Chinese princess by outwitting her father the Emperor, who treasures his daughter more than all the rice in China.
Subjects: Fairy tales, China, Rice, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction
