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How many pages is Little House on the Prairie?

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder has a median of 334 pages across 40 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 249 to 352 pages.

Median pages
334
40 editions counted
Range
156–368
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
5.9h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
92k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Little House on the Prairie 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
5 h 54 min
At 30 min a day
12 days
At 1 hour a day
6 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

20030019401960198020001935: 200 pages1935: 354 pages1953: 335 pages1953: 334 pages1953: 335 pages1953: 358 pages1961: 352 pages1963: 335 pages1964: 221 pages1967: 335 pages1970: 209 pages1971: 335 pages1971: 352 pages1971: 354 pages1981: 335 pages1986: 246 pages1991: 250 pages1993: 256 pages1994: 335 pages1996: 209 pages1997: 352 pages1999: 314 pages2000: 209 pages2002: 352 pages2002: 335 pages2003: 335 pages2003: 272 pages2004: 352 pages2004: 190 pages2004: 352 pages2005: 240 pages2007: 309 pages2010: 368 pages2010: 224 pages2012: 256 pages2014: 264 pages2016: 352 pages2017: 256 pages2018: 156 pages2018: 322 pagesmedian 334
200300195020001935: 200 pages1935: 354 pages1953: 335 pages1953: 334 pages1953: 335 pages1953: 358 pages1961: 352 pages1963: 335 pages1964: 221 pages1967: 335 pages1970: 209 pages1971: 335 pages1971: 352 pages1971: 354 pages1981: 335 pages1986: 246 pages1991: 250 pages1993: 256 pages1994: 335 pages1996: 209 pages1997: 352 pages1999: 314 pages2000: 209 pages2002: 352 pages2002: 335 pages2003: 335 pages2003: 272 pages2004: 352 pages2004: 190 pages2004: 352 pages2005: 240 pages2007: 309 pages2010: 368 pages2010: 224 pages2012: 256 pages2014: 264 pages2016: 352 pages2017: 256 pages2018: 156 pages2018: 322 pagesmedian 334
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
Hardcover33575 h 54 min
Paperback335105 h 54 min

Editions counted

The 40 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 2 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 130 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2018CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–156OL55271907M
2018CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–322OL29796702M
2017CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform–256OL56620108M
2016HarperCollins Publishers Limited–352OL29737827M
2014EgmontPaperback264OL28517234M
2012Egmont Books, Limited–256OL29157056M
2010HarperCollins Publishers–368OL29577856M
2010Egmont Books, Limited–224OL28990969M

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Questions

How many pages is Little House on the Prairie?
About 334 pages: that is the median of 40 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 156 to 368 pages.
How long does it take to read Little House on the Prairie?
About 5 h 54 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 12 days.
How many words is Little House on the Prairie?
Roughly 92,000 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).