Thursday, December 18, 2008

Some Inklings' Children's books' statistics

For people who would like to get the format right when writing for children.

Ten books:
The Seven Chronicles of Narnia, by C. S. Lewis
The Hobbit, Farmer Giles of Ham, Smith of Wootton Major, by J. R. R. Tolkien

Ten chapters:
Two each from end of Horse and His Boy and beginning of Prince Caspian.
One from Voyage of the Dawn Treader, two from Silver Chair.
Three from The Hobbit (6, 7, 8)

List of chapter numbersList of paragraph numbers List of speech numbers List of verse numbers
19 103 109 24
17 67 96 21
16 51 72 18
16 41 68 -
16 30 66 -
15 30 62 -
15 30 47 -
15 28 46 -
"9" 24 45 -
? 24 40 -
















Max


Upper quartan


Median


Lower quartan


Min

Chapters
per book:

19

16

15/16

15

?

Paragraphs
per chapter,
excepting dialogue:

103

51

30

28

24

Dialogue paragraphs
per chapter:

109

72

62/66

46

40

Verses per chapter

24

18

-

-

-



See also
Foster Grant UK
WORD COUNTS OF THE MOST POPULAR BOOKS IN THE WORLD
Date August 3, 2017
https://blog.fostergrant.co.uk/2017/08/03/word-counts-popular-books-world/