How long does it take to read The Sea Fairies?
The Sea Fairies by L. Frank Baum takes about 2 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Trot and Cap'n Bill
Next: Sky Island
About 2 hours 23 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1911. 130 pages, about 35,750 words. Written for children.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 58 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 528 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is a tale of life beneath the sea, of mermaids and sea serpents and other strange inhabitants of the ocean depths. A little girl named Trot and Cap'n Bill, an old sailor, are invited by several mermaids to come and visit their under-water home. Baum wrote this story in the hope of interesting his readers in something other than Oz; in the preface he writes: "I hope my readers who have so long followed Dorothy's adventures in the Land of Oz will be interested in Trot's equally strange experiences." Of course, he did not succeed in distracting his fans from Oz, yet the book was eagerly read; the result of this attempt was that he was forced to introduce Trot and Cap'n Bill into the later Oz stories.
Subjects: Children's stories, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy
