How long does it take to read The Dancing Bear?
The Dancing Bear by Michael Morpurgo takes about 1 hour 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 5 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1900. 59 pages, about 16,225 words. Written for children.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A lonely girl living in a remote mountain community adopts an abandoned bear cub, but their friendship is threatened when a glamorous film crew comes to town.
Subjects: Bears, Friendship, Fiction, Mountain life, Children's fiction, Bears, fiction
