Book · by Robert Louis Stevenson · first published 1885
How many pages is A Child's Garden of Verses?
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson has a median of 118 pages across 65 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 97 to 131 pages.
How long will A Child's Garden of Verses take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Pages by format
Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.
| Format | Median pages | Editions | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 114 | 6 | 2 h 12 min |
| Paperback | 128 | 3 | 2 h 28 min |
Editions counted
The 65 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 4 more editions were set aside because the page count was less than half or more than 2.2 times the median, which usually means an abridged text, an omnibus, or a typing error. Open Library lists 115 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Star Bright Books | Hardcover | 80 | OL8882846M |
| 2007 | Sterling | Hardcover | 104 | OL9727446M |
| 2003 | Tandem Library | School & Library Binding | 124 | OL10952755M |
| 1999 | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | – | 67 | OL359542M |
| 1999 | Penguin UK | Paperback | 128 | OL10202110M |
| 1998 | W. Morrow | – | 119 | OL686010M |
| 1998 | Transaction Publishers | – | 99 | OL684035M |
| 1995 | Applewood Books | – | 127 | OL787991M |
| 1994 | Barefoot Books | – | 175 | OL1429771M |
| 1994 | Longmeadow Press | – | 115 | OL1108395M |
| 1994 | Harry N. Abrams | – | 87 | OL1442221M |
| 1994 | The Penguin Group | Paperback | 109 | OL25432432M |
| 1992 | Dover Publications | – | 88 | OL1722357M |
| 1992 | Knopf | – | 147 | OL1744283M |
| 1991 | Mainstream Publishing | Hardcover | 160 | OL8970735M |
| 1991 | Philomel Books | – | 103 | OL1874679M |
| 1990 | Gallery | – | 104 | OL20063785M |
| 1990 | Mainstream | – | 136 | OL1350960M |
| 1989 | Running Press | – | 137 | OL2061778M |
| 1989 | Chronicle Books | – | 121 | OL2051336M |
| 1989 | Contemporary Books | – | 63 | OL2057751M |
| 1988 | Derrydale | Hardcover | 128 | OL7688676M |
| 1986 | Bedrick/Blackie | – | 84 | OL2541706M |
| 1985 | Children's Classics | – | 118 | OL2532110M |
| 1985 | Delacorte Press | – | 124 | OL2532496M |
| 1981 | Rand McNally | – | 67 | OL4261595M |
| 1979 | Shambhala | – | 136 | OL4747255M |
| 1978 | Press in Tuscany Alley | – | 114 | OL4571801M |
| 1975 | Green Tiger Press | – | 97 | OL2915225M |
| 1974 | Blackie | – | 85 | OL5243556M |
| 1973 | Grosset & Dunlap | – | 104 | OL6227203M |
| 1971 | Penguin Books | – | 124 | OL1952990M |
| 1966 | F. Watts | – | 96 | OL13540074M |
| 1966 | Oxford U.P. | – | 96 | OL6019267M |
| 1964 | Golden Press | – | 68 | OL5938467M |
| 1961 | Platt & Munk | – | 88 | OL5822996M |
| 1960 | Dent | – | 127 | OL5812760M |
| 1952 | Puffin Books, Penguin Books | Paperback | 128 | OL24366023M |
| 1951 | Simon and Schuster | Hardcover | 76 | OL6093938M |
| 1946 | World Pub. Co. | – | 142 | OL6505130M |
| 1944 | Limited Editions Club | – | 112 | OL6467296M |
| 1933 | C. Scribner's Sons | – | 124 | OL13540081M |
| 1928 | The John C. Winston Company | – | 122 | OL6715713M |
| 1923 | D. Appleton | – | 167 | OL7054530M |
| 1922 | W. Heffer & sons, ltd. | – | 116 | OL24175160M |
| 1920 | John Lane | – | 136 | OL7228730M |
| 1920 | J. H. Sears | – | 243 | OL7063437M |
| 1919 | Rand, McNally and company | – | 96 | OL23530315M |
| 1918 | Thomas Y. Crowell company | – | 87 | OL23530261M |
| 1918 | The Page company | – | 114 | OL23720357M |
| 1910 | Educational publishing company | – | 97 | OL24133723M |
| 1909 | C. Scribner's sons | – | 115 | OL24133551M |
| 1909 | J. Lane | – | 136 | OL7194050M |
| 1908 | A. Flanagan company | – | 131 | OL23720655M |
| 1905 | Scribner | – | 124 | OL23247986M |
| 1905 | Scribner | – | 124 | OL6961321M |
| 1902 | H. Altemus company | – | 164 | OL24133720M |
| 1902 | Rand, McNally | – | 93 | OL7157382M |
| 1899 | John Lane | – | 136 | OL7191978M |
| 1895 | Charles Scribner's Sons | – | 136 | OL5230520M |
| 1895 | Scribner | – | 136 | OL7171307M |
| 1895 | Charles Scribner's Sons | – | 136 | OL7025007M |
| 1892 | C. Scribner's sons | – | 101 | OL24175192M |
| 1889 | Scribner | – | 125 | OL20564421M |
| – | Avenel Books | – | 105 | OL23266851M |
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Questions
- How many pages is A Child's Garden of Verses?
- About 118 pages: that is the median of 65 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 63 to 243 pages.
- How long does it take to read A Child's Garden of Verses?
- About 2 h 16 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 5 days.
- How many words is A Child's Garden of Verses?
- Roughly 32,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.
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)).