It takes the average reader 9 hours and 49 minutes to read The Lore of the Playground by Steve Roud
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
From conkers to marbles, from British Bulldog to tag, not forgetting 'one potato, two potato' and 'eeny, meeny, miny, mo', The Lore of the Playground looks at the games children have enjoyed, the rhymes they have chanted and the rituals and traditions they have observed over the past hundred years and more. Each generation, it emerges, has had its own favourites - hoops and tops in the 1930s, clapping games more recently. Some pastimes, such as skipping, have proved remarkably resilient, their complicated rules carefully handed down from one class to the next. Many are now the stuff of...
The Lore of the Playground by Steve Roud is 576 pages long, and a total of 147,456 words.
This makes it 194% the length of the average book. It also has 180% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 25 minutes to read The Lore of the Playground aloud.
The Lore of the Playground is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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