How long does it take to read The Green Book?
The Green Book by Jill Paton Walsh takes about 1 hour 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 24 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1981. 76 pages, about 20,900 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 | 2 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
As their small stock of essential supplies dwindles, a group of refugees from earth struggle to make their strange new planet provide life's necessities.
Subjects: Life on other planets, Juvenile fiction, Imaginary Voyages, Science fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction
