num_pages: 288
description: “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.
language: English
title: Cheaper by the Dozen
titlecomplete: Cheaper by the Dozen
genres: Family, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Humor, Classics, Autobiography, Childrens, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 42799
places: Montclair, New Jersey
series: Cheaper by the Dozen
publisher: HarperTorch