How long does it take to read Kirsten's Surprise?
Kirsten's Surprise by Janet Shaw takes about 1 hour 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 8 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1986. 62 pages, about 17,050 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 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav's farm in mid-nineteenth-century Minnesota.
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Christmas, Swedish Americans, Christmas stories
