Book · by Roald Dahl
How many pages is James and the Giant Peach?
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl has a median of 144 pages across 27 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 122 to 155 pages.
How long will James and the Giant Peach 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 | 152 | 2 | 2 h 41 min |
| Paperback | 160 | 5 | 2 h 49 min |
Editions counted
The 27 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 4 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 167 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Santillana Educación, S.L. | paperback | 208 | OL37934971M |
| 2016 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 176 | OL28592319M |
| 2016 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 132 | OL28608841M |
| 2011 | Penguin Books | – | 142 | OL25220960M |
| 2007 | Puffin Books | – | 146 | OL22259583M |
| 2006 | Galaxy | – | 207 | OL35444757M |
| 2002 | A.A. Knopf | – | 146 | OL3559800M |
| 2002 | Knopf Books for Young Readers | hardcover | 160 | OL39566853M |
| 2001 | Gardners Books | paperback | 160 | OL30943140M |
| 2001 | Puffin Books | – | 146 | OL3963778M |
| 1999 | Puffin | – | 124 | OL22627598M |
| 1997 | Tetley GB Ltd | – | 156 | OL22610089M |
| 1996 | Penguin Group | – | 126 | OL22940165M |
| 1996 | Knopf | – | 126 | OL825021M |
| 1995 | Puffin Books | paperback | 160 | OL29671824M |
| 1994 | Seedlings, Braille Books for Children | Unknown Binding | 144 | OL7818954M |
| 1991 | HarperCollins | – | 144 | OL22251737M |
| 1988 | Windrush | – | 152 | OL22393705M |
| 1988 | Puffin Books | – | 112 | OL7353616M |
| 1987 | Isis Large Print Books | Hardcover | 144 | OL9904227M |
| 1984 | Yearling | Paperback | 119 | OL7819068M |
| 1981 | Allen & Unwin | – | 110 | OL22014087M |
| 1978 | Bantam Books, Inc. | Paperback | 154 | OL7818924M |
| 1967 | Allen & Unwin | – | 112 | OL5649677M |
| 1961 | Penguin Books | – | 114 | OL58637847M |
| 1961 | Knopf | – | 118 | OL5821794M |
| 1961 | Knopf | – | 119 | OL23266922M |
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Questions
- How many pages is James and the Giant Peach?
- About 144 pages: that is the median of 27 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 110 to 208 pages.
- How long does it take to read James and the Giant Peach?
- About 2 h 32 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 6 days.
- How many words is James and the Giant Peach?
- 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)).