How long does it take to read The Children of Green Knowe?
The Children of Green Knowe by L. M. Boston takes about 2 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Green Knowe
Next: The River at Green Knowe
About 2 hours 53 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1954. 157 pages, about 43,175 words. Written for children.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 27 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.
Subjects: Dwellings, Fiction, Great-grandmothers, Space and time, Fantasy, Time travel
