Books with author Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

This book is the sequel to Cheaper by the Dozen, the story of the Gilbreth family. It is co-authored by two of the eleven children, Frank, Jr. and Ernestine. Their father was a time management expert and used his skills for the efficient, and often funny, ways of running a house full of thirteen distinct individuals. In 1924 he passed and his wife Lillian became the primary breadwinner. This is the story of how she managed the business and guiding her children individually through adolescence. She became one of the foremost management engineers in the world.

No growing pains have ever been more hilarious than those suffered loudly by the riotous Gilbreth clan. First there are a dozen red-haired, freckle-faced kids to contend with. Then there's Dad, a famous efficiency expert who believes a family can be run just like a factory. Finally there's Mother, his partner in everything except discipline. How they all survive such escapades as forgetting Frank Jr. in a roadside restaurant or going on a first date with Dad in the backseat or having their tonsils removed en masse will keep you in stitches. You can be sure they're not only cheaper, they're funnier 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!