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Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1)

Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.,

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Start date: May 1, 2020

Finish date: May 31, 2020

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Apr 17, 2017 Chrissie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, 2017-read, usa, audible-us, bio, kids, humor

Read this book to meet the father and the rest of the Gilbreth family. A family with twelve kids! He is an efficiency expert designing machines and organizing tasks so time and in turn money can be saved. The Mom works alongside him as an industrial organizational psychologist. It is watching the family as a whole that is the attraction of the book. I guarantee you will laugh.

We are given a real family, albeit exceptional because of its size. They live in Montclair, New Jersey, Providence, Rhod ...more

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May 07, 2020 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, read-in-2020, childrens

Cheaper by the Dozen is a sweet memoir that serves as a loving tribute to the author's parents and eleven siblings. The home life feels very old-fashioned for this modern reader, but I enjoyed the unique and quirky stories. The mother was warm and sweet, but also a bit subservient. The father is intelligent and hard-working, but his views are a bit strange. Neither character is too perfect, which I liked as the memoir felt a bit more honest and real. ...more

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Dec 31, 2016 Martha rated it did not like it · review of another edition

This was a reread for me (a book challenge to reread a childhood favorite), but I have no memories of the book other than it was the beginning of an obsession with big family books. I enjoyed the story as a whole, but was disappointed to read some racist depictions of characters not uncommon in books published in the 1940s. I won't be rereading Bells on Their Toes. ...more

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