#69 in Children’s books
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
- 222
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature
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Our view
“Haroun and the Sea of Stories” delights in storytelling itself: a funny, playful fairy-tale quest of just over two hundred pages. The opening city is so wretched it no longer remembers its name, and things grow more fantastical from there. Some readers who came to Rushdie with other expectations find it charming and very funny. Children are its first audience; adults in the mood for something light are its second.
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About the book
Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a 1990 children's novel by Salman Rushdie. It is Rushdie's fifth major publication and followed The Satanic Verses (1988). It is a phantasmagorical story that begins in a city so miserable and ruinous that it has forgotten its name.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.1 across 117 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 44% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Children’s books average of 7.9. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.6 | 10 | 9% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 107 | 92% |
Frequently asked
What age is Haroun and the Sea of Stories for?
Haroun and the Sea of Stories sits on the Children shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 5–10. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 222 pages — shorter than 98% of the ranked books in Children’s books.
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