How long does it take to read Put Your Mother on the Ceiling?
Richard De Mille
Put Your Mother on the Ceiling by Richard De Mille takes about 3 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 13 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1967. 175 pages, about 48,125 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is a unique little book that contains children's imagination games. It teaches parents how to play games involving creative imagery with their children. It's written by a fiction writer, so it's not a cut-and-dried "do this, then that" description. But it gives the flavor, the words, the direction for games that a parent can play. Here's a quote from the book: "In making up your own games, see that therules of reality are broken as often as they are kept. Water should run uphill. Dogs should meow. Fish should fly. Outrageous flouting of the rules will help the child to distinguish reality from imagination. Between your games, don't forget to touch down to reality. A good way is to talk realistically about some of the ideas in the game." In summary: this lovely little book stimulates the imagination and can help parents play in a different fashion with their kids. This can help children to develop their imaginations, and can be just great fun.
Subjects: Educational games, Imagination, Play, Historical fiction, Suspense
