How long does it take to read Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel?
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton takes about 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 53 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1939. 48 pages, about 13,200 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 | 1 hour 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 40 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Mary Ann, lose their jobs to the gasoline, electric, and diesel motor shovels, they go to a little country town where they find that one new job leads to another.
Subjects: Steam shovels, Fiction, Children's fiction, Steam shovels, fiction, Children's stories, Excavating machinery
