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How many pages is Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants?

Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants by Dav Pilkey has a median of 151 pages across 7 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 151 to 156 pages.

Median pages
151
7 editions counted
Range
149–160
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
2.7h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
42k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
2 h 40 min
At 30 min a day
6 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.

150160200020052010201520202000: 153 pages2000: 151 pages2000: 151 pages2016: 149 pages2016: 160 pages2016: 151 pages2020: 160 pagesmedian 151
1501602000201020202000: 153 pages2000: 151 pages2000: 151 pages2016: 149 pages2016: 160 pages2016: 151 pages2020: 160 pagesmedian 151
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 7 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 47 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2020Scholastic, Incorporated–160OL29835018M
2016Bound to Stay Bound Books–149OL53332567M
2016Scholastic–160OL29313589M
2016––151OL27196647M
2000Blue Sky PressPaperback153OL23244228M
2000Blue Sky Press–151OL50416M
2000Scholastic Inc.–151OL43214721M

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Questions

How many pages is Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants?
About 151 pages: that is the median of 7 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 149 to 160 pages.
How long does it take to read Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants?
About 2 h 40 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 6 days.
How many words is Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants?
Roughly 42,000 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)).