How long does it take to read Frederick?
Frederick by Leo Lionni takes about 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 35 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1963. 32 pages, about 8,800 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 | 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 52 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Frederick is a children's picture book by Leo Lionni about a colony of field mice living in a stone wall on a farm. As winter approaches, the mice busily collect food. One of them, Frederick, does nothing of the sort. When the others ask what he is up to, he says he is gathering sunlight, colors and words to see them through the cold, gray, dark days ahead. The book sets the industrious community against one mouse whose idea of preparing for winter is very different from theirs.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Children's stories, Fairy tales, Juvenile fiction, Mice, Mice in fiction, Imagination
