How long does it take to read The Heart and the Bottle?
The Heart and the Bottle by Oliver Jeffers takes about 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 35 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2010. 32 pages, about 8,800 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 | 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
After safeguarding her heart in a bottle hung around her neck, a girl finds the bottle growing heavier and her interest in things around her becoming smaller.
Subjects: Heart, Grief in children, Juvenile fiction, Children and death, Emotions, Fiction
