How long does it take to read Frog and Toad Are Friends?
Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel takes about 1 hour 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Frog and Toad
Next: Frog and Toad Together
About 1 hour 10 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1920. 64 pages, about 17,600 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 | 1 hour 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 73 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Frog and Toad Are Friends is an American children's picture book, written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel and published by Harper & Row in 1970. It inaugurated the Frog and Toad series, whose four books completed by Lobel comprise five easy-to-read short stories each. It was a Caldecott Honor Book, or runner-up for the American Library Association Caldecott Medal, which recognizes the year's best illustration in an American children's picture book.
Subjects: amistad, amitie, amitié, animals, beginner, beginning reader