How long does it take to read The Second Jungle Book?
The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling takes about 3 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Jungle Book duology
Previous: The Jungle Book
About 3 hours 16 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1887. 178 pages, about 48,950 words. Written for children.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 26 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 612 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Not so much a sequel as a small collection of short stories, only five of which feature Mowgli and friends. The best known of the stories is 'How Fear Came', which tells the story of how the tiger got his stripes.
Subjects: Romans, Enfants sauvages, Jungles, Faune de la jungle, Fiction, Jungle animals
