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How many pages is Little House in the Big Woods?

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder has a median of 218 pages across 44 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 158 to 238 pages.

Median pages
218
44 editions counted
Range
100–262
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.9h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
60k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Little House in the Big Woods take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
3 h 51 min
At 30 min a day
8 days
At 1 hour a day
4 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

100200194019601980200020201932: 176 pages1932: 200 pages1932: 176 pages1932: 176 pages1953: 237 pages1953: 237 pages1953: 237 pages1953: 237 pages1953: 256 pages1953: 262 pages1956: 144 pages1960: 237 pages1963: 144 pages1963: 144 pages1963: 262 pages1970: 137 pages1971: 238 pages1971: 237 pages1971: 256 pages1979: 137 pages1981: 238 pages1981: 238 pages1981: 237 pages1981: 238 pages1987: 167 pages2000: 244 pages2001: 238 pages2003: 163 pages2004: 256 pages2005: 238 pages2005: 256 pages2007: 198 pages2007: 238 pages2014: 176 pages2016: 256 pages2017: 119 pages2017: 128 pages2017: 180 pages2017: 180 pages2017: 100 pages2017: 180 pages2018: 108 pages2018: 108 pages2021: 104 pagesmedian 218
100200195020001932: 176 pages1932: 200 pages1932: 176 pages1932: 176 pages1953: 237 pages1953: 237 pages1953: 237 pages1953: 237 pages1953: 256 pages1953: 262 pages1956: 144 pages1960: 237 pages1963: 144 pages1963: 144 pages1963: 262 pages1970: 137 pages1971: 238 pages1971: 237 pages1971: 256 pages1979: 137 pages1981: 238 pages1981: 238 pages1981: 237 pages1981: 238 pages1987: 167 pages2000: 244 pages2001: 238 pages2003: 163 pages2004: 256 pages2005: 238 pages2005: 256 pages2007: 198 pages2007: 238 pages2014: 176 pages2016: 256 pages2017: 119 pages2017: 128 pages2017: 180 pages2017: 180 pages2017: 100 pages2017: 180 pages2018: 108 pages2018: 108 pages2021: 104 pagesmedian 218
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
Hardcover17223 h 01 min
Paperback17123 h 01 min

Editions counted

The 44 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 120 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Independently Published–104OL34266339M
2018CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–108OL29804122M
2018CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–108OL56534255M
2017Independently Published–119OL29765851M
2017CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–128OL29772694M
2017CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–180OL55824164M
2017CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–180OL56184996M
2017CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–100OL29775896M

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Questions

How many pages is Little House in the Big Woods?
About 218 pages: that is the median of 44 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 100 to 262 pages.
How long does it take to read Little House in the Big Woods?
About 3 h 51 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 8 days.
How many words is Little House in the Big Woods?
Roughly 60,000 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).