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Book · by Enid Blyton · first published 1991

How many pages is The magic Faraway Tree?

The magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton has a median of 189 pages across 19 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 182 to 208 pages.

Median pages
189
19 editions counted
Range
116–226
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.3h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
52k
at 275 words per page

How long will The magic Faraway Tree 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 20 min
At 30 min a day
7 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.

100150200198019902000201020201971: 185 pages1978: 189 pages1982: 189 pages1990: 116 pages1991: 185 pages1997: 185 pages1997: 192 pages1997: 192 pages2002: 177 pages2011: 226 pages2011: 160 pages2012: 178 pages2017: 224 pages2018: 186 pages2018: 160 pages2020: 224 pages2020: 208 pages2020: 208 pagesmedian 189
1001502001980200020201971: 185 pages1978: 189 pages1982: 189 pages1990: 116 pages1991: 185 pages1997: 185 pages1997: 192 pages1997: 192 pages2002: 177 pages2011: 226 pages2011: 160 pages2012: 178 pages2017: 224 pages2018: 186 pages2018: 160 pages2020: 224 pages2020: 208 pages2020: 208 pagesmedian 189
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

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
Hardcover15422 h 43 min
Paperback18533 h 16 min

Editions counted

The 19 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 48 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2020Hachette Children's Group–224OL29533020M
2020Egmont Books, Limited–208OL30176467M
2020Hachette Children's Group–208OL30178895M
2018Egmont Books, Limited–186OL28707743M
2018Egmont Books, Limited–160OL28707570M
2017Egmont–224OL33572967M
2012Dean–178OL32122986M
2011Egmont–226OL35749368M

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Questions

How many pages is The magic Faraway Tree?
About 189 pages: that is the median of 19 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 116 to 226 pages.
How long does it take to read The magic Faraway Tree?
About 3 h 20 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 7 days.
How many words is The magic Faraway Tree?
Roughly 52,000 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)).