How long does it take to read Mio, My Son?
Mio, My Son by Astrid Lindgren takes about 3 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 16 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1956. 178 pages, about 48,950 words. Written for children.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 26 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 39 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Summary, Young Anders is carried away from his bleak life as an unloved foster child in Sweden, to become Mio, the son of the King of Farawayland.
Subjects: Foster children, Juvenile fiction, Fairy tales, Adventure and adventurers, Fathers and sons, Fiction
