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How many pages is Five Children and It?

Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit has a median of 146 pages across 313 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 132 to 189 pages.

Median pages
146
313 editions counted
Range
72–306
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
2.6h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
40k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
2 h 34 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.

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Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 13 editions without a publication year not plotted.

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
Hardcover18233 h 12 min
Paperback20453 h 36 min

Editions counted

The 313 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 9 more editions were 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 950 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Independently Published–179OL34222226M
2021Independently Published–189OL34334721M
2021Independently Published–83OL34209775M
2021Independently Published–146OL34240660M
2021Independently Published–147OL34212688M
2021Independently Published–179OL34281207M
2021Independently Published–189OL34196600M
2021Independently Published–189OL34315125M

More by Edith Nesbit

All 7 books by Edith Nesbit with page counts

Questions

How many pages is Five Children and It?
About 146 pages: that is the median of 313 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 72 to 306 pages.
How long does it take to read Five Children and It?
About 2 h 34 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 6 days.
How many words is Five Children and It?
Roughly 40,000 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)).