num_pages: 274
description: 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!
language: English
title: Cheaper by the Dozen
titlecomplete: Cheaper by the Dozen
genres: Biography, Childrens, Classics, Family, Nonfiction, Autobiography, History, Memoir, Humor, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 42790
places: Montclair, New Jersey
series: Cheaper by the Dozen
publisher: Scholastic