How long does it take to read Flour Babies?
Flour Babies by Anne Fine takes about 3 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 16 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1994. 178 pages, about 48,950 words. Written for children.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 26 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When the annual school science fair comes around, Mr Cartright's class don't get to work on the Soap Factory, the Maggot Farm or the Exploding Custard Tins. To their intense disgust they get the Flour Babies — sweet little six-pound bags of flour that must be cared for at all times.
Subjects: Fiction, Schools, Parent and child, Babies, Infants, Juvenile fiction
