How long does it take to read Binya's Blue Umbrella?
Binya's Blue Umbrella by Ruskin Bond takes about 1 hour 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 19 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1995. 72 pages, about 19,800 words. Written for children.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Binya, a young girl living in rural India, trades her leopard-claw necklace for a dainty blue umbrella, but the local tea shop proprietor wants the umbrella for his own.
Subjects: Umbrellas in fiction, India in fiction, Umbrellas, Fiction, Children's fiction, Umbrellas and parasols, fiction
