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How long does it take to read Frog and Toad Are Friends?

Arnold Lobel

Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel takes about 1 hour 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

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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

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