Book · by Hans Christian Andersen · first published 1985
How many pages is The Ugly Duckling?
The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen has a median of 32 pages across 50 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 28 to 43 pages.
How long will The Ugly Duckling take you?
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 | 32 | 13 | 34 min |
| Paperback | 32 | 6 | 34 min |
Editions counted
The 50 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 122 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Raintree Publishers | – | 40 | OL30158054M |
| 2020 | Raintree Publishers | – | 40 | OL30157674M |
| 2007 | Viking Juvenile | Hardcover | 32 | OL11067159M |
| 2006 | Viking Juvenile | Hardcover | 32 | OL11067373M |
| 2005 | Mercury Books | Hardcover | 32 | OL12291585M |
| 2004 | Scandinavia Publishing House | Hardcover | 48 | OL13426325M |
| 2003 | Picture Window Books | Library binding | 32 | OL8403306M |
| 2003 | Troll Communications | Paperback | 32 | OL9858300M |
| 1999 | Morrow Junior Books | Hardcover | 40 | OL25724606M |
| 1996 | Dutton Juvenile | Hardcover | 32 | OL9814458M |
| 1996 | Award Pubns. | – | 32 | OL22837977M |
| 1996 | Brimax Books | Hardcover | 24 | OL12040177M |
| 1996 | Brimax | – | 20 | OL22824606M |
| 1995 | I. E. Clark | Paperback | 30 | OL11260198M |
| 1994 | Award Pubns. | – | 32 | OL22838460M |
| 1994 | Dover Pubns | Paperback | 32 | OL10343770M |
| 1994 | Hodder Headline Australia Children's Books | Hardcover | 32 | OL9540354M |
| 1994 | Turner Publishing, Inc. | Hardcover | 25 | OL12197595M |
| 1994 | Penguin U S A | Hardcover | 16 | OL9782845M |
| 1993 | Penguin Putnam | Hardcover | 24 | OL10536910M |
| 1992 | Andrews and McMeel | – | 32 | OL1554821M |
| 1991 | Ward Lock Educational Co Ltd | Paperback | 24 | OL11195298M |
| 1989 | Picture Book Studio | – | 38 | OL2185982M |
| 1989 | Childs World | School & Library Binding | 24 | OL8251960M |
| 1987 | Disneyland/Vista Records] | – | 24 | OL24371571M |
| 1986 | Barron's | – | 28 | OL2546686M |
| 1986 | Knopf | – | 40 | OL2707679M |
| 1986 | Longman | Paperback | 32 | OL9540277M |
| 1985 | Barron's | – | 47 | OL2715025M |
| 1985 | Weekly Reader Books | – | 30 | OL24222649M |
| 1985 | Greenwillow Books | – | 28 | OL2863029M |
| 1985 | Barron's | – | 47 | OL2538957M |
| 1982 | H. Hamilton | – | 28 | OL2446860M |
| 1979 | Troll Associates | – | 21 | OL4729973M |
| 1977 | Skandinavisk Bogforlag : Flensted | – | 28 | OL4668255M |
| 1974 | Gallaudet College Press | – | 47 | OL22925250M |
| 1974 | Clerc | Paperback | 48 | OL11407473M |
| 1972 | Abelard-Schuman | – | 52 | OL5707147M |
| 1972 | Blackie | – | 32 | OL5461778M |
| 1971 | Grosset & Dunlap | – | 20 | OL5086410M |
| 1971 | Scroll Press | – | 32 | OL5220878M |
| 1965 | Scribner | – | 48 | OL5949034M |
| 1965 | Scribner | – | 48 | OL23250103M |
| 1956 | E. Ward | – | 54 | OL5289249M |
| 1955 | Macmillan | – | 54 | OL6180254M |
| 1955 | Macmillan | – | 54 | OL22806378M |
| 1949 | Limited Editions Club | – | 44 | OL6067368M |
| 1948 | Penguin | – | 47 | OL6048069M |
| 1945 | Grosset & Dunlap | – | 32 | OL6484087M |
| 1851 | Cundall & Addey | – | 24 | OL23926769M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Ugly Duckling?
- About 32 pages: that is the median of 50 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 16 to 54 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Ugly Duckling?
- 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 The Ugly Duckling?
- 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)).