How long does it take to read Dinosaurs Before Dark?
Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne takes about 1 hour 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Magic Tree House
Next: The Knight at Dawn
About 1 hour 28 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1992. 80 pages, about 22,000 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 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 58 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Magic, Dinosaurs, Tree houses, Time travel
