Cheaper by the Dozen

Jordan Jordan Posted by Jordan
Category Categories: Older Readers, Review
Tags: Biography, efficiency, Funny, large family, Sad

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Cheaper by the Dozen (Perennial Classics) (Paperback)
by Frank B. Gilbreth, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
ISBN: 006008460X

Price: USD 8.63
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This is the story of motion-study pioneer Frank Gilbreth. He and his wife decide to have a dozen children and actually do it. Then hilarity ensues as Mr. Gilbreth applies his factory-efficiency job to raising a family.

Written by two of Frank Gilbreth’s children, Cheaper by the Dozen is meant to be the true story of the life of their father. I don’t know if they made anything up for the book, but it’s certainly a lot of fun to follow the Gilbreth family through life in America during the early 1900s.