How long does it take to read Necklace of Raindrops?
and other stories
Necklace of Raindrops by Joan Aiken, Jan Pieńkowski takes about 1 hour 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 51 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1968. 101 pages, about 27,775 words. Written for children.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 5 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 51 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Here are eight gloriously imaginative stories for eight satisfying sessions of bedtime reading. There's a flying apple pie, a cat that's bigger than an elephant, a house that lays an egg, storybook animals that leap out of their books at night, and a wealth of other wonderful characters and ideas, all with the colorful, dreamlike quality of the very best fairy tales. Joan Aiken's delicious prose is a joy to read aloud to very young listeners yet simple enough for the independent reader to savor on his or her own. Kevin Hawkes's illustrations--nearly 60 of them--capture with great flair and fun the magical adventures and the triumph of the good over the bad.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Short Stories, Magic, Children's stories, English, Children's fiction
