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Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth, Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (2005, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060763132
ISBN-139780060763138
eBay Product ID (ePID)30869533
Product Key Features
Book TitleCheaper by the Dozen
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicWomen, Topic / Marriage & Family, Modern / 19th Century, Modern / General
Publication Year2005
GenreBiography & Autobiography, Humor, History
AuthorFrank B. Gilbreth, Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Book SeriesPerennial Classics Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight0.4 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews[Cheaper by the Dozen] is a touching family portrait that also happens to be very, very funny...its appeal is timeless., "Gay and lighthearted...One of the most amusing books." -- Chicago Sun-Times "Always entertaining, occasionally hilarious, occasionally touching.... Sound Americana." -- Saturday Review of Literature "Instructive, funny, and very readable." -- School Library Journal "A touching family portrait that also happens to be very, very funny...its appeal is timeless." -- Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post, "Gay and lighthearted...One of the most amusing books." - Chicago Sun-Times "Always entertaining, occasionally hilarious, occasionally touching.... Sound Americana." - Saturday Review of Literature "Instructive, funny, and very readable." - School Library Journal "A touching family portrait that also happens to be very, very funny...its appeal is timeless." - Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post "There's fun and sentiment, appreciation and appraisal, and a good time is had by all." - Kirkus Reviews "The book is the greatest possible tribute by children to parents, and a living proof that the Gilbreths, at any rate, had so many children they knew just what to do--to the immense enjoyment and pleasure of all their readers." - The Christian Science Monitor "One hilarious chapter follows another. . . . Cheaper by the Dozen is such an entertaining account of the growing Gilbreths that you wish it could have been written before 1924. The father of the Dozen would have enjoyed it." - New York Herald Tribune
Dewey Edition21
Series Volume Number149
Dewey DecimalFIC
SynopsisOne of the best-loved American memoirs of an oversized family and the parents who held them together. What do you get when you put twelve lively kids together with a father--a famous efficiency expert--who believes families can run like factories, and a mother who is his partner in everything except discipline? You get a hilarious tale of growing up that has made generations of kids and adults alike laugh along with the Gilbreths in Cheaper by the Dozen . Translated into more than fifty-three languages and made into a classic film starring Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy, this memoir is a delightfully enduring story of family life at the turn of the 20th century., "A touching family portrait that also happens to be very, very funny. . . its appeal is timeless." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post One of the best-loved American memoirs of an oversized family and the parents who held them together. What do you get when you put twelve lively kids together with a father--a famous efficiency expert--who believes families can run like factories, and a mother who is his partner in everything except discipline? You get a hilarious tale of growing up that has made generations of kids and adults alike laugh along with the Gilbreths in Cheaper by the Dozen . Translated into more than fifty-three languages and made into a classic film starring Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy -- and a remake featuring Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Hilary Duff, and Alyson Stoner -- this memoir is a delightfully enduring story of family life at the turn of the twentieth century., "A touching family portrait that also happens to be very, very funny. . . its appeal is timeless." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post One of the best-loved American memoirs of an oversized family and the parents who held them together. What do you get when you put twelve lively kids together with a father--a famous efficiency expert--who believes families can run like factories, and a mother who is his partner in everything except discipline? You get a hilarious tale of growing up that has made generations of kids and adults alike laugh along with the Gilbreths in Cheaper by the Dozen. Translated into more than fifty-three languages and made into a classic film starring Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy -- and a remake featuring Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Hilary Duff, and Alyson Stoner -- this memoir is a delightfully enduring story of family life at the turn of the twentieth century.
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- Jan 05, 2016
Good book
I highly recommend this book. It is very amusing and very interesting. Attractive pictorial cover also.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
