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Book · by Dav Pilkey · first published 2004

How many pages is Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space?

Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space by Dav Pilkey has a median of 142 pages across 8 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 134 to 150 pages.

Median pages
142
8 editions counted
Range
132–160
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
2.5h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
39k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
2 h 30 min
At 30 min a day
5 days
At 1 hour a day
3 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

130140150160200020052010201520201999: 141 pages1999: 134 pages1999: 142 pages2000: 134 pages2000: 146 pages2015: 132 pages2020: 160 pages2023: 160 pagesmedian 141
1301401501602000201020201999: 141 pages1999: 134 pages1999: 142 pages2000: 134 pages2000: 146 pages2015: 132 pages2020: 160 pages2023: 160 pagesmedian 141
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 8 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 53 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2023Scholastic, Incorporated–160OL38069949M
2020Scholastic, Incorporated–160OL29835009M
2015Scholastic Inc.–132OL27171696M
2000Scholastic–134OL26330634M
2000Ted Smart–146OL46937375M
1999Scholastic–141OL24202723M
1999Blue Sky Press–134OL390326M
1999Blue Sky Press–142OL23243662M

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Questions

How many pages is Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space?
About 142 pages: that is the median of 8 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 132 to 160 pages.
How long does it take to read Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space?
About 2 h 30 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 5 days.
How many words is Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space?
Roughly 39,000 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)).