The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids—Featuring the Author's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids—Featuring the Author's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays runs 14.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Rebecca LaChance (about 9.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 14.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 30 days |
| 1 hour / day | 15 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 10 days |
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What our data says
- At 14.8 hours, it runs longer than 93% of the 39,028 Non-Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Rebecca LaChance
Rebecca LaChance narrates 13 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 154 hours in all.
About as long, on the Non-Fiction shelf
1,964 Non-Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids—Featuring the Author's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays is an audiobook by Alexandra Lange: a 14.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Rebecca LaChance, released November 11, 2025, on the Non-Fiction shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 14.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Rebecca LaChance
- Released
- November 11, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Non-Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781639739431
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids—Featuring the Author's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays as an audiobook?
The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids—Featuring the Author's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays runs 14.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.8 hours.
Is The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids—Featuring the Author's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids—Featuring the Author's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays?
The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids—Featuring the Author's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays is narrated by Rebecca LaChance.
Is The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids—Featuring the Author's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.8 hours, saving 4.9 hours.