Book · by Gary Paulsen · first published 2003
How many pages is Hatchet?
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen has a median of 195 pages across 28 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 188 to 208 pages.
How long will Hatchet take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Pages by format
Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.
| Format | Median pages | Editions | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 194 | 4 | 3 h 25 min |
| Paperback | 195 | 8 | 3 h 26 min |
Editions counted
The 28 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 81 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | paperback | 224 | OL32269457M |
| 2017 | Thorndike Press | – | 216 | OL28881103M |
| 2009 | Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing | – | 192 | OL33982250M |
| 2007 | Aladdin | Paperback | 195 | OL8458959M |
| 2007 | Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing | Hardcover | 192 | OL11758895M |
| 2006 | Aladdin | Paperback | 186 | OL8458765M |
| 2006 | Simon Pulse | Mass Market Paperback | 189 | OL8458764M |
| 2005 | Macmillan Children's Books | Paperback | 160 | OL10492052M |
| 2003 | Aladdin | Paperback | 208 | OL7730509M |
| 2003 | Pan Books Limited | Hardcover | 151 | OL10489424M |
| 2000 | Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books | Hardcover | 195 | OL7729639M |
| 1999 | Holt, Rinehart and Winston | – | 235 | OL6804587M |
| 1999 | Scholastic Inc., by arrangement with Viking Penguin, a div. | Paperback | 195 | OL27927419M |
| 1999 | Aladdin Paperbacks | – | 189 | OL6803164M |
| 1996 | Aladdin Paperbacks | – | 195 | OL23098630M |
| 1996 | Macmillan Children's Books | – | 133 | OL22202466M |
| 1996 | Aladdin | Paperback | 208 | OL7728743M |
| 1996 | Macmillan Children's | – | 152 | OL22641828M |
| 1994 | Piper Macmillan Children's | – | 269 | OL17312245M |
| 1989 | Macmillan Children's | – | 151 | OL22331385M |
| 1989 | Cornerstone Books | – | 222 | OL2056045M |
| 1988 | Trumpet Club | – | 195 | OL20700742M |
| 1988 | Puffin Books | – | 195 | OL2040701M |
| 1988 | Puffin Books | – | 195 | OL18353502M |
| 1987 | Bradbury Press | – | 195 | OL15352371M |
| 1987 | Scholastic Inc | – | 186 | OL28310585M |
| 1987 | Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books | Hardcover | 208 | OL9222322M |
| 1986 | MacMillan Publishing Company. | Paperback | 195 | OL9930660M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Hatchet?
- About 195 pages: that is the median of 28 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 133 to 269 pages.
- How long does it take to read Hatchet?
- About 3 h 26 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 7 days.
- How many words is Hatchet?
- Roughly 54,000 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)).