How long does it take to read The Kingfisher Book of Great Boy Stories?
a treasury of classics from children's literature
Michael Morpurgo, A. A. Milne, Jeff Brown, J. M. Barrie, Carlo Collodi, Roald Dahl, Ted Hughes, Richmal Crompton, T. H. White, C. S. Lewis, Philippa Pearce, Rudyard Kipling, Jean Craighead George, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rosemary Sutcliff, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain
The Kingfisher Book of Great Boy Stories by Michael Morpurgo, A. A. Milne, Jeff Brown, J. M. Barrie, Carlo Collodi, Roald Dahl, Ted Hughes, Richmal Crompton, T. H. White, C. S. Lewis, Philippa Pearce, Rudyard Kipling, Jean Craighead George, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rosemary Sutcliff, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain takes about 2 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 56 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2000. 160 pages, about 44,000 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 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A collection of excerpts from the works of such authors as A.A. Milne, Carlo Collodi, Ted Hughes, Roald Dahl, C.S. Lewis, Donald Sobol, and Mark Twain.
Subjects: Short stories, Children's stories, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Short Story Collections, Anthologies, Classics
