Books with title Cheaper By the Dozen

Imagine it! Twelve kids - six girls and six boys - in the same house. Chaos! Well, not quite. At the head of the Gilbreth clan is father Gilbreth, a rather bulky, often loud, efficiency expert who advises businesses on how they can save time and money. When he tries to apply his business techniques to his own family, hilarity - lots of it - ensues. This charming memoir of a large and loving family - written by two of the twelve Gilbreths - is a priceless piece of early 20th-century Americana. Kit contents: paperback book, 4 audio cassettes.

Back in the days when the "horseless carriage" was a novelty, there were twelve red-headed Gilbreth children, and they had more fun than a traveling circus. They lived in a great, big, wonderful house in the country, will all kinds of pets, and a large, gray Pierce-Arrow that Dad Gilbreth called "Foolish Carriage." Whenever Dad took the family for a ride, someone was sure to ask, "How do you feed all those kids?" And Dad would rely: "Well, you know, they come cheapter by the dozen."

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, Cheaper by the Dozen is a delightfully enduring story of family life at the turn of the 20th century.