How long does it take to read The Twenty-one Balloons?
William Pène Du Bois, John McDonough
The Twenty-one Balloons by William Pène Du Bois, John McDonough takes about 3 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1947. 179 pages, about 49,225 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 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 39 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Professor William Waterman Sherman just wants to be alone. So he decides to take a year off and spend it crossing the Pacific Ocean in a hot-air balloon the likes of which no one has ever seen. But when he is found after just three weeks floating in the Atlantic among the wreckage of twenty hot-air balloons, naturally, the world is eager to know what happened. How did he end up with so many balloons . . . and in the wrong ocean?
Subjects: Ballooning, Balloons, Fiction, Historical fiction, Hot air balloons, Inventions
