How long does it take to read Kensuke's Kingdom?
Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo takes about 3 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours
A weekend read
First published 1999. 164 pages, about 45,100 words. Written for children.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 41 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Michael's parents buy a yacht, and take him off to sail round the world. Washed overboard in a fierce storm, Michael finds himself on the shore of a remote island - and soon discovers he's not alone. Kensuke, a former Japanese soldier, survived the war and the bombing of Hiroshima, but his family perished. As an extraordinary bond forms between the two, Kensuke faces a heart-breaking choice: can he give up the secluded life he's built for himself to help reunite Michael with his parents?
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Japanese, Islands, Castaways, Survival
