# It's Like This, Cat

It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville has 34,142 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Emily Neville](https://musael.com/books/authors/emily-neville.md) (1919–1997)
- **Genre:** children fiction
- **Readers:** middle grade

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 34,142
- **Reading time:** 2 h 17 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 3 h 40 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 2 h 51 min | 6 days |
| 250 wpm | 2 h 17 min | 5 days |
| 300 wpm | 1 h 54 min | 4 days |

## Read or listen

It's Like This, Cat is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24921
- LibriVox audiobook (3 h 21 min): https://librivox.org/its-like-this-cat-by-emily-neville/

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 34,142
- Dialogue: 30% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 11.5 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24921 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL9160141W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24921

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/its-like-this-cat