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The Hundred Dresses by the numbers

Eleanor Estes · first published 1944 · dataset 2026-07-21

Length and reading time

At 80 pages, The Hundred Dresses is longer than 21.5% of the 1,664 books on the reading lists we track. It is shorter than the median book listed for grades 3-5 (186 pages).

Word counts and reading times are estimates: pages × 275 words, divided by the reading speed. Your edition's page count and your own pace will differ.

Where The Hundred Dresses is on school reading lists

2 appearances (0.0% of all 13,258 listings in the dataset), drawn from 2 published lists, in grades 3rd–4th. 2 of the 2 carry a link to the published source document.

Sources

• CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 4-5 Newbery Honor · checked 2026-05-29
• CCSS ELA Appendix B — anti-bullying exemplar · checked 2026-05-29

Questions

How many pages is The Hundred Dresses?

The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes is 80 pages in the edition recorded in our dataset. Page counts vary by edition and format; at about 275 words per page that is roughly 22,000 words.

How long does it take to read The Hundred Dresses?

About 1 h 28 min at an average adult pace of 250 words per minute (1 h 13 min at 300 wpm, 1 h 50 min at 200 wpm). At 20 minutes a day that is about 5 days.

Is The Hundred Dresses on school reading lists?

Yes. It appears 2 times on the U.S. school reading lists, award lists and curricula in our dataset, in no single state (national curricula only) plus 2 national-curriculum listings, most often in grades 3-5. That ranks it #1,644 of 1,664 listed books.

Related

• The Hundred Dresses: reading level, grades and similar booksOn ReadingList, our sister site for school reading lists.
• Books of about the same lengthMercy Watson to the Rescue (80 pp.) · Fourth Grade Rats (90 pp.) · Love That Dog (92 pp.) · The Whipping Boy (96 pp.)
• The most assigned books, rankedAll 1,664 listed books start here.
• Book length statisticsHow long assigned books are, by grade.

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