Book · by Maurice Sendak · first published 1963
How many pages is Where the Wild Things Are?
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak has a median of 42 pages across 19 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 40 to 48 pages.
How long will Where the Wild Things Are take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 19 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 125 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Penguin Random House | – | 48 | OL28555619M |
| 2013 | Bound to Stay Bound Books | – | 40 | OL53339132M |
| 2001 | Galison Books | Hardcover | 48 | OL7889555M |
| 1998 | HarperCollins Publishers | – | 48 | OL7276597M |
| 1992 | HarperFestival | – | 48 | OL1563782M |
| 1991 | HarperCollins | – | 37 | OL18905941M |
| 1988 | HarperCollins | Library Binding | 48 | OL9231088M |
| 1988 | Harper & Row, publishers | – | 40 | OL23153467M |
| 1988 | Harper Collins | – | 48 | OL7276379M |
| 1986 | Primary E.S.L. Resource Centre | – | 22 | OL20933460M |
| 1984 | HarperCollins Publishers | – | 37 | OL7291999M |
| 1984 | HarperTrophy; 25th Ann | Paperback | 48 | OL9246768M |
| 1970 | Penguin | – | 40 | OL22822873M |
| 1969 | Scholastic | – | 42 | OL46936743M |
| 1967 | Weston Woods Studies | – | 60 | OL13816519M |
| 1963 | Harper and Row | – | 38 | OL22403244M |
| 1963 | Maurice sendak | – | 46 | OL32681339M |
| 1963 | Harper & Row | – | 40 | OL5888230M |
| 1963 | Harper & Row | – | 40 | OL16512976M |
Questions
- How many pages is Where the Wild Things Are?
- About 42 pages: that is the median of 19 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 22 to 60 pages.
- How long does it take to read Where the Wild Things Are?
- About 44 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 2 days.
- How many words is Where the Wild Things Are?
- Roughly 12,000 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)).