How long does it take to read My Father's Dragon?
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett takes about 1 hour 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of My Father's Dragon trilogy
Next: Elmer and the Dragon
About 1 hour 28 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1948. 80 pages, about 22,000 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 | 2 hours 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 93 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A young boy runs away from home to rescue an abused baby dragon held captive to serve as a free twenty-four hour, seven-days-a-week ferry for the lazy wild animals living on Wild Island.
Subjects: Fiction, Dragons, Animals, Juvenile fiction, Children's stories, Islands
