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How many pages is Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me?

Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle has a median of 32 pages across 6 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; most editions have exactly 32 pages.

Median pages
32
6 editions counted
Range
25–32
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
0.6h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
9k
at 275 words per page

How long will Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me 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
34 min
At 30 min a day
2 days
At 1 hour a day
1 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

252730321990200020101986: 25 pages1987: 32 pages1999: 32 pages2009: 32 pages2015: 32 pages2015: 32 pagesmedian 32
252730321990200020101986: 25 pages1987: 32 pages1999: 32 pages2009: 32 pages2015: 32 pages2015: 32 pagesmedian 32
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 6 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 19 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2015Little Simon–32OL28830588M
2015Little Simon–32OL28806123M
2009Simon & Schuster, Limited–32OL28443016M
1999Little SimonBoard book32OL7729286M
1987Hodder and Stoughton–32OL22423031M
1986Picture Book Studio USA–25OL2547837M

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Questions

How many pages is Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me?
About 32 pages: that is the median of 6 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 25 to 32 pages.
How long does it take to read Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me?
About 34 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 2 days.
How many words is Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me?
Roughly 9,000 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)).