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Author · born 1914 · died 2003

Robert McCloskey books: page counts

3 books by Robert McCloskey with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
3
with page data
Longest
149
Homer Price
Shortest
54
Blueberries for Sal

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Make Way for Ducklings (1941)67Homer Price (1976)149Blueberries for Sal54
Make Way for Ducklin…67Homer Price (1976)149Blueberries for Sal54
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Make Way for Ducklings19416762–1441 h 11 min
Homer Price1976149149–1602 h 38 min
Blueberries for Sal–5451–6457 min

Reading all 3 takes about 4 h 46 min at average speed (270 pages).

Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).