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How many pages is Farmer Boy?

Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder has a median of 372 pages across 21 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 357 to 384 pages.

Median pages
372
21 editions counted
Range
174–398
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
6.6h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
102k
at 275 words per page
Book 2 of Little House on the Prairie
Series in order

How long will Farmer Boy take you?

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Reading time
6 h 33 min
At 30 min a day
14 days
At 1 hour a day
7 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

20030040019401960198020001933: 398 pages1933: 230 pages1933: 386 pages1953: 384 pages1953: 371 pages1953: 371 pages1953: 384 pages1953: 371 pages1953: 384 pages1961: 372 pages1965: 372 pages1971: 372 pages1972: 236 pages2000: 394 pages2003: 294 pages2003: 304 pages2004: 384 pages2007: 357 pages2016: 384 pages2017: 368 pages2018: 174 pagesmedian 372
200300400195020001933: 398 pages1933: 230 pages1933: 386 pages1953: 384 pages1953: 371 pages1953: 371 pages1953: 384 pages1953: 371 pages1953: 384 pages1961: 372 pages1965: 372 pages1971: 372 pages1972: 236 pages2000: 394 pages2003: 294 pages2003: 304 pages2004: 384 pages2007: 357 pages2016: 384 pages2017: 368 pages2018: 174 pagesmedian 372
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

FormatMedian pagesEditionsReading time
Hardcover36836 h 29 min
Paperback33025 h 50 min

Editions counted

The 21 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 69 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2018CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–174OL55182160M
2017HarperCollinshardcover368OL27381627M
2016HarperCollins Publishers Limited–384OL29737818M
2007HarperTrophyPaperback357OL9238233M
2004HarperTrophy–384OL7279193M
2003Tandem LibrarySchool & Library Binding294OL10953347M
2003AvonPaperback304OL9232438M
2000LRS (Library Reproduction Service)–394OL6777365M

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Questions

How many pages is Farmer Boy?
About 372 pages: that is the median of 21 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 174 to 398 pages.
How long does it take to read Farmer Boy?
About 6 h 33 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 14 days.
How many words is Farmer Boy?
Roughly 102,000 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)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).