How long does it take to read One Duck Stuck?
Phyllis Root
One Duck Stuck by Phyllis Root takes about 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 40 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1998. 36 pages, about 9,900 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 6 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In this counting book, increasingly larger groups of animals try to help a duck that is stuck in the sleepy, slimy marsh.
Subjects: Counting, Ducks, Fiction, Marsh animals, Stories in rhyme, Canards