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How many pages is Fantastic Mr Fox?

Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl has a median of 90 pages across 21 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 81 to 96 pages.

Median pages
90
21 editions counted
Range
43–112
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
1.6h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
25k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
1 h 35 min
At 30 min a day
4 days
At 1 hour a day
2 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

5075100197019801990200020101970: 81 pages1970: 63 pages1970: 62 pages1970: 81 pages1985: 43 pages1988: 96 pages1990: 96 pages1991: 90 pages1993: 96 pages1996: 96 pages1996: 81 pages1997: 81 pages1998: 81 pages2002: 81 pages2007: 96 pages2009: 96 pages2011: 96 pages2013: 81 pages2016: 112 pages2016: 96 pages2016: 96 pagesmedian 90
5075100198020001970: 81 pages1970: 63 pages1970: 62 pages1970: 81 pages1985: 43 pages1988: 96 pages1990: 96 pages1991: 90 pages1993: 96 pages1996: 96 pages1996: 81 pages1997: 81 pages1998: 81 pages2002: 81 pages2007: 96 pages2009: 96 pages2011: 96 pages2013: 81 pages2016: 112 pages2016: 96 pages2016: 96 pagesmedian 90
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 21 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 161 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2016Puffin–112OL28592321M
2016Penguin Books, Limited–96OL28610757M
2016Penguin Books, Limited–96OL28598272M
2013Puffin–81OL28297572M
2011Penguin Publishing Group–96OL44247403M
2009Puffin Bookspaperback96OL27284001M
2007PuffinPaperback96OL9408595M
2002Alfred A. Knopf–81OL3567303M

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Questions

How many pages is Fantastic Mr Fox?
About 90 pages: that is the median of 21 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 43 to 112 pages.
How long does it take to read Fantastic Mr Fox?
About 1 h 35 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 4 days.
How many words is Fantastic Mr Fox?
Roughly 25,000 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)).