Book · by Rudyard Kipling · first published 1986
How many pages is Just So Stories?
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling has a median of 151 pages across 97 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 111 to 224 pages.
Median pages
151
97 editions counted
Range
69–304
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
2.7h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
42k
at 275 words per page
How long will Just So Stories take you?
Reading time
2 h 40 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.
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 | 150 | 8 | 2 h 39 min |
| Paperback | 128 | 12 | 2 h 15 min |
Editions counted
The 97 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 5 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 372 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 106 | OL34278568M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 108 | OL34326465M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 111 | OL34290563M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 84 | OL34209203M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 113 | OL34303125M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 106 | OL34280069M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 110 | OL34345958M |
| 2021 | Welbeck Publishing Group Ltd. | – | 192 | OL33933043M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 113 | OL34185422M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 157 | OL34215558M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 113 | OL34213794M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 151 | OL34201442M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 157 | OL34258318M |
| 2021 | Independently Published | – | 110 | OL34244363M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 112 | OL30225991M |
| 2020 | Printers Row Publishing Group | – | 96 | OL34088658M |
| 2020 | Independently Published | – | 112 | OL30223872M |
| 2018 | Welbeck Publishing Group Ltd. | – | 192 | OL33575239M |
| 2017 | Alma Classics | – | 224 | OL29341574M |
| 2017 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 224 | OL28644874M |
| 2016 | Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated | – | 256 | OL29746925M |
| 2016 | Pan Macmillan | – | 176 | OL28591576M |
| 2016 | Pan Macmillan | – | 304 | OL28593949M |
| 2015 | Pan Macmillan | – | 304 | OL28577877M |
| 2013 | Palazzo Editions, Limited | – | 192 | OL29672968M |
| 2013 | Egmont Books, Limited | – | 160 | OL29161265M |
| 2013 | Penguin Random House | – | 272 | OL28493678M |
| 2012 | Start Publishing LLC | – | 78 | OL34002073M |
| 2011 | Penguin Books, Limited | – | 192 | OL28462527M |
| 2009 | Penguin Random House | – | 240 | OL28438847M |
| 2009 | House of Stratus, Incorporated | – | 142 | OL28817577M |
| 2007 | Echo Library | Paperback | 92 | OL11681537M |
| 2006 | Oxford University Press (China) Ltd. | – | 72 | OL28444207M |
| 2006 | Hard Press | Paperback | 80 | OL11685992M |
| 2005 | North Books | Hardcover | 97 | OL12286640M |
| 2005 | IndyPublish | Hardcover | 124 | OL11826225M |
| 2005 | Dodo Press | Paperback | 88 | OL11651874M |
| 2005 | North Books | Hardcover | 150 | OL12286760M |
| 2005 | Digireads.com | Paperback | 104 | OL11820569M |
| 2004 | Collector's Library | Hardcover | 174 | OL8772709M |
| 2003 | Chrysalis Books | Paperback | 128 | OL8949529M |
| 2003 | Pavilion Books | – | 125 | OL33345187M |
| 2002 | Signet Classic | – | 146 | OL3559190M |
| 2002 | Aladdin Paperbacks | – | 180 | OL3958996M |
| 2001 | Dover | – | 99 | OL6795492M |
| 1999 | Transaction Publishers | – | 125 | OL381782M |
| 1998 | NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company | Paperback | 144 | OL8978477M |
| 1998 | Cethial & Bossche Company | Paperback | 128 | OL12225174M |
| 1997 | Pavilion | Paperback | 125 | OL9002414M |
| 1996 | Books of Wonder | – | 148 | OL781794M |
| 1995 | Puffin | – | 224 | OL7354023M |
| 1994 | Penguin | – | 158 | OL18203672M |
| 1993 | Barefoot Books | – | 173 | OL1393387M |
| 1993 | Parragon Press | – | 145 | OL32112306M |
| 1993 | Folio Society | – | 189 | OL17857152M |
| 1993 | Barefoot Books | – | 173 | OL16449263M |
| 1992 | Troll Communications | School & Library Binding | 151 | OL11384813M |
| 1992 | Dover | – | 82 | OL1718132M |
| 1992 | Troll Communications | Paperback | 151 | OL8071529M |
| 1992 | Knopf | – | 218 | OL1744285M |
| 1991 | HarperCollins | – | 122 | OL1861829M |
| 1989 | Penguin Classics | Paperback | 176 | OL9304321M |
| 1989 | Pavilion Books | – | 96 | OL33383568M |
| 1987 | Viking Kestrel | – | 129 | OL23266979M |
| 1987 | ABC-Clio Inc | Hardcover | 190 | OL9448542M |
| 1987 | Macdonald | – | 165 | OL15015020M |
| 1987 | Viking Kestrel | – | 127 | OL24753087M |
| 1987 | Pavilion | – | 96 | OL32705638M |
| 1987 | Children's Classics | – | 244 | OL2739243M |
| 1987 | H. Holt | – | 96 | OL2741216M |
| 1987 | Puffin | Paperback | 128 | OL25370233M |
| 1987 | Hamlyn | – | 76 | OL18085793M |
| 1987 | Borders Press | Hardcover | 244 | OL7718713M |
| 1986 | Silver Burdett | – | 76 | OL2716876M |
| 1975 | Piccolo | Paperback | 148 | OL25442506M |
| 1972 | Doubleday | – | 111 | OL4468904M |
| 1972 | Doubleday Books | Library Binding | 112 | OL10150437M |
| 1965 | Grosset & Dunlap | – | 155 | OL5945667M |
| 1957 | Grosset & Dunlap | – | 69 | OL6227025M |
| 1952 | Garden City Books | – | 84 | OL6114381M |
| 1950 | Macmillan | – | 229 | OL33007994M |
| 1950 | Macmillan | – | 229 | OL26538182M |
| 1946 | Doubleday | – | 249 | OL6503707M |
| 1927 | Doubleday Page | – | 249 | OL13540175M |
| 1922 | Doubleday, Page & Company | – | 249 | OL16937711M |
| 1922 | Doubleday, Page & Company | – | 249 | OL18084696M |
| 1922 | Doubleday, Page & company | – | 249 | OL26294684M |
| 1912 | Doubleday Page & company | – | 249 | OL23247995M |
| 1912 | Doubleday Page & company | – | 249 | OL6547776M |
| 1912 | Garden City Pub. Co. | – | 249 | OL7032392M |
| 1912 | Doubleday & Co., Inc. | – | 247 | OL7032059M |
| 1907 | Doubleday | – | 249 | OL17642759M |
| 1907 | Doubleday | – | 249 | OL7153692M |
| 1907 | Doubleday | – | 249 | OL17636451M |
| 1907 | Doubleday, Page & Co. | – | 249 | OL23237774M |
| 1907 | Doubleday Page | – | 249 | OL17764847M |
| 1898 | Century Co. | – | 275 | OL19167422M |
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Questions
- How many pages is Just So Stories?
- About 151 pages: that is the median of 97 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 69 to 304 pages.
- How long does it take to read Just So Stories?
- About 2 h 40 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 6 days.
- How many words is Just So Stories?
- Roughly 42,000 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)).