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How many pages is Danny, The Champion of the World?

Danny, The Champion of the World by Roald Dahl has a median of 211 pages across 20 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 205 to 224 pages.

Median pages
211
20 editions counted
Range
175–378
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.7h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
58k
at 275 words per page

How long will Danny, The Champion of the World take you?

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Reading time
3 h 43 min
At 30 min a day
8 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.

20030040019801990200020101975: 196 pages1975: 214 pages1975: 196 pages1975: 206 pages1977: 206 pages1977: 175 pages1978: 196 pages1988: 208 pages1989: 270 pages1994: 223 pages1994: 223 pages1998: 205 pages2000: 378 pages2002: 256 pages2002: 205 pages2004: 224 pages2007: 224 pages2007: 240 pages2016: 224 pages2018: 208 pagesmedian 211
200300400198020001975: 196 pages1975: 214 pages1975: 196 pages1975: 206 pages1977: 206 pages1977: 175 pages1978: 196 pages1988: 208 pages1989: 270 pages1994: 223 pages1994: 223 pages1998: 205 pages2000: 378 pages2002: 256 pages2002: 205 pages2004: 224 pages2007: 224 pages2007: 240 pages2016: 224 pages2018: 208 pagesmedian 211
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 20 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was 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 104 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2018Penguin Books, Limited–208OL30586779M
2016Penguin Books, Limited–224OL28610752M
2007PuffinPaperback224OL9571045M
2007Puffin Books–240OL26820839M
2004Gardners Bookspaperback224OL28206651M
2002Random House Childrens Booksflexibound256OL30537167M
2002A.A. Knopf–205OL3948638M
2000GalaxyPaperback378OL9612733M

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Questions

How many pages is Danny, The Champion of the World?
About 211 pages: that is the median of 20 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 175 to 378 pages.
How long does it take to read Danny, The Champion of the World?
About 3 h 43 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
How many words is Danny, The Champion of the World?
Roughly 58,000 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)).