How long does it take to read The Great Kapok Tree?
The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry takes about 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 41 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1990. 37 pages, about 10,175 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 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The many different animals that live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home.
Subjects: Fiction, Ecology, Jungle animals, Conservation of natural resources, Kapok, Rain forests
