Cheaper by the Dozen
by Frank B. Gilbreth, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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Author: Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Frank B. GilbrethEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-12-01
ISBN: 0060594330
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: HarperTorch
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- ISBN13: 9780060594336
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Reviews of Cheaper by the Dozen
Book Review: A Funny Survival Manual for the Frugal Family
Summary: 4 Stars
Frank B Gilbreth, Sr. was an American original, known in his own day as an efficiency expert and still remembered because of his "motion study" methods. He is, in addition, still loved, because two of his children wrote about him in this book.
He was unquestionably a Trial to his children, painting messages in Morse Code on the walls, putting record players and foreign language records in the bathrooms and driving around with his huge brood of children in the car shouting embarrassing remarks to passersby. Not only does he sound like enormous fun, but after a childhood like that one would be prepared for anything the world tossed at you.
This is a great book, especially for the hard times that are facing the world. It reminds us that there are fabulous ways to have fun without being hooked up to some electronic device. It shows how creativity can make money go a little further. Maybe love, ingenuity and the willingness to try will get a family through, especially if they stick together. A great book, so why only four stars? Because the sequel BELLES ON THEIR TOES, is even funnier and better.
Summary of Cheaper by the Dozen
What do you get when you mix a blunt-talking, famous efficiency-expert father and a brilliant, compassionate psychologist mother with twelve rambunctious offspring of various sizes? You get one of America's all-time best- loved memoirs! The hilarious story of growing up Gilbreth has already delighted generations of readers -- and it remains as joyous and exuberant as ever. Laugh along with the adventures of the large, irrepressible family unit that redefined the term -- and proved the old adage, the more the merrier ... and scarier!
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