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How many pages is Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People?

Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People by Dav Pilkey has a median of 176 pages across 6 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 173 to 176 pages.

Median pages
176
6 editions counted
Range
172–176
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.1h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
48k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
3 h 06 min
At 30 min a day
7 days
At 1 hour a day
4 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

1701751802010201520202006: 172 pages2006: 176 pages2006: 176 pages2007: 176 pages2019: 172 pages2020: 176 pagesmedian 176
1701751802010201520202006: 172 pages2006: 176 pages2006: 176 pages2007: 176 pages2019: 172 pages2020: 176 pagesmedian 176
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 6 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 41 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2020Scholastic, Incorporated–176OL34084513M
2019Bound to Stay Bound Books–172OL53345385M
2007Scholastichardcover176OL37048476M
2006Scholastic–172OL24964803M
2006The Blue Sky Press–176OL7512394M
2006Scholastic Inc.Paperback176OL7516248M

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Questions

How many pages is Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People?
About 176 pages: that is the median of 6 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 172 to 176 pages.
How long does it take to read Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People?
About 3 h 06 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 7 days.
How many words is Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People?
Roughly 48,000 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)).