How long does it take to read Scared Silly!?
Scared Silly! by Marc Brown takes about 1 hour 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 7 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1994. 61 pages, about 16,775 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 7 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A collection of poems, stories, jokes, and riddles designed to help young readers scale their fears down to size by inviting them to laugh out loud at the things that make them scared silly. Selections include favorite frights from Florence Parry Heide, Bobbi Katz, and Ogden Nash as well as some original shivers specially cooked up for this volume by Marc Brown. Guaranteed to make even the most wide-eyed, white-knuckled youngster let loose with a giggle, Scared Silly is sure to cast a warm glow at Halloween and all year long
