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Cheaper by the Dozen
by: Frank B. Gilbreth, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

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Availability: unknown Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.540922
EAN: 9780060594336
ISBN: 0060594330
Label: HarperTorch
Manufacturer: HarperTorch
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: December 01, 2003
Publisher: HarperTorch
Release Date: November 25, 2003
Studio: HarperTorch
Sales Rank: 109638

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:

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!

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- On target
After losing the 2nd copy of "Cheaper" I decided to try again -- My wife got this as one of her Christmas Presents and is extremely well pleased.

Rating:

- An Awesome Book, Ignore the Ludicrous Cover
I don't know why they would put a picture from the recent movie on the cover of this classic book...it had NOTHING to do with this book. The movie was stupid; this book is GREAT. The amazing Gilbreth family shares hilarious and heartwarming stories about growing up with parents who basically began motion-study (figuring out how businesses could do things in less time). This is one to read out loud to the kids. They will laugh and laugh...and so will you. :^)

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- You only need one word to describe this book: fun!
It is very, very rare to come across a book that is purely and simply fun to read. The reason that this book is a classic is that it has managed to be just this. This is the story of Frank Gilbreth, his wife, and their twelve children around the turn of the 20th century. If you imagine that a family of fourteen would provide many, many occasions for humor, you would be very correct. This book is an account, written by two of those twelve children, of the many interesting and humerous events which befell them growing up in such a large family. The family is made even more enjoyable and strange by the extremely unique father who was a pioneer of motion-study, and who did such things as covering the walls of their home with lessons about astronomy, morse-code, etc. It is very interesting ... Read More

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- A Wonderful Classic That Is Still Great - By Jingo!
"Cheaper by the Dozen" is a wonderful, entertaining portrayal of life in the early part of the last century, combined with universal themes about family life that today's readers can very much relate to. As a member of a family of 10 children from New Jersey growing up in the middle of the twentieth century, this book about a large family from New Jersey in the early twentieth century particularly resonated with me. It was and still is one of my favorites. Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, were pioneers in scientific management and engineering, and this book portrays their entertaining adventures in applying these techniques to the raising of their 12 children. After not having read "Cheaper by the Dozen" in over twenty years, I recently read it again with my teenage son, and thoroughly enjoyed it ... Read More

Rating:

- Among the most classic of classics...
Everyone who has a funnybone needs to listen to this story. I read it as a child and it was hysterical to me then, and now as I sit and listen to it read, with some feeling...it is only funnier. And yet it is filled with the warmth of a family that loves and tries to know and understand one another--with all its warts and foibles. It's very real. Real; funny. Do yourself, or someone who needs a good laugh, a very real favor...get hold of this original audio story of "Cheaper By the Dozen." And ENJOY.

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