How long does it take to read The Wee Free Men?
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett, Paul Kidby takes about 5 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 30 of Discworld
Previous: Death and What Comes Next Next: Monstrous Regiment
About 5 hours 49 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1994. 317 pages, about 87,175 words. Written for children.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 51 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A riotous, wise, and gripping junior Discworld novel from the Carnegie Medal-winning author and acknowledged master of comic fantasy.Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching - a wise shepherd - might have been a witch, but now Granny Aching is dead and it's up to Tiffany to work it all out when strange things begin happening: a fairy-tale monster in the stream, a headless horseman and, strangest of all, the tiny blue men in kilts, the Wee Free Men, who have come looking for the new 'hag'. These are the Nac Mac Feegles, the pictsies, who like nothing better than thievin', fightin' and drinkin'. Then Tiffany's young brother goes missing and Tiffany and the Wee Free Men must join forces to save him from the Queen of the Fairies-
Subjects: Children's fiction, Fairies, fiction, Witches, fiction, Discworld (Imaginary place), Juvenile fiction, Witches
