How long does it take to read Madeline's Christmas?
Madeline's Christmas by Ludwig Bemelmans takes about 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Madeline
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About 35 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1956. 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 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
With everyone else sick in bed with a cold on Christmas Eve, it is up to Madeline to run the school, and she finds a remarkable helper in a rug-selling magician.
Subjects: Fiction, Stories in rhyme, Magicians, Christmas, Juvenile fiction, American Christmas stories
