How long does it take to read The Ugly Pumpkin?
Dave Horowitz
The Ugly Pumpkin by Dave Horowitz takes about 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 35 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2005. 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 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
> I am the Ugly Pumpkin, as you can plainly see. > Of one hundred thousand pumpkins, none are quite like me. The Ugly Pumpkin has waited all through October for someone to take him home, but no one seems to want him. Sure, he’s kind of funny-looking, and doesn’t look like any of the other pumpkins, but why does everyone have to tease him so much? Even the trees make fun of him. So the poor, lonely Ugly Pumpkin leaves the patch in search of a place where he’ll fit in. And sure enough, by the time Thanksgiving rolls around, he discovers the truth about who he is and finds exactly where he belongs—but it’s not at all what he expected!
Subjects: Fiction, Halloween, Stories in rhyme, Thanksgiving Day, Identity, Pumpkin
