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Summary: The Funniest (and the best) Book in the World
Review: I read Cheaper by the Dozen in class with my classmates and teacher. I find that Cheaper by the Dozen is funny at some parts, like at the begining, and sad in other parts, like at the end. I liked how Dad orginized the house, and tried to save time. One time he made the kids solve large multiblication tables faster than a cauculator!!! It must be alot of fun living in a house with 6 sisters, and 6 brothers, a fat, time saving father, and a pretty, gentle mother. IT WAS A GREAT BOOK!!!
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Summary: Cheaper By The Dozen Review
Review: Cheaper by The Dozen is a funny, interesting, and exciting book.
You can learn so many lessons from it if its learning respect or learning kindness. Now I will introduce to you a few of the main characters. Dad is a motion study expert which I think has a very spunky personality. Mom on the other hand has a very quiet endeavor. Their kids, which are 12, all are brilliant, like Anne at the age of 18 is the same smart as Jane at the age of 6. To Mom all The children are different and unique in their own ways. To Dad all the kids are the same. The reason Cheaper by the Dozen is called so is because Dad always asked for cheaper prices because he had a dozen children. This is one of my favorite books and after you read it i'm sure it will be yours too. According to Dad this book is recommended for all ages, to Mom it is recommended for age 8 and up.
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Summary: A Functional Family
Review: This book is the story of an unusual family at the turn of the century, with twelve children. The father is an efficiency expert who runs the family like it is a factory assembly line, with everything timed down to the minute. Even the times for bathing are scheduled, so that the household runs smoothly. Mr. Gilbreth practices all of his ideas on how to run an efficient business on his family; they are the guinea pigs for new ideas.
He is the parent who disciplines all the kids, and the mom is really understanding of how hard it is to live in such an unusual family. Both of the parents were professionals, as the mom was also a psychologist and industrial engineer. They applied their professional ideas on raising the 12 kids. The children learn foreign languages, long division and about the solar system, using methods from Mr. Gilbreth's professional life. They were also taught touch typing and morse code by efficient methods. It is a very humorous look at the life of a large and unusual family. The ending of the book is sad, as Mr. Gilbreth dies, leaving Mrs. Gilbreth to raise the children alone. The tone of the book is humor, as many of the situations are really funny, and the parents approach life with a sense of humor. The father is often very sarcastic, but not in a mean way. He liked to parade the family around and even though he was proud of them, he found the reactions of other people very funny. The parent's sense of humor made dealing with the problems of a large family easier, and made for a more loving lifestyle. Even though raising a family that large was serious business, they never took life too seriously. I think that is an important way to raise a family, by keeping a sense of humor. The father is a smart man, and he is never characterized as an idiot, even though he does some crazy things to help his family. The main theme throughout the book is the importance of humor in their lives.
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Summary: i loved this book and it was funny as well as informative
Review: I am 13, and I first read this book when I was 11 and just finished re-reading it for about the 8th time or so. This is such a great book! It is about a motion study expert and a psychiatrist who marry and plan to have 6 boys and 6 girls, which they do: Anne, Mary, Ernestine, Martha, Frank Jr, Bill, Lill, Fred, Dan, John, Bob, and Jane. They each have their own adventures; Anne with having the most resposibility, Ernestine and touch typing and many more funny adventures, all lead by their crowd-loving and humerous father.
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Summary: A neccesary and very funny read......
Review: The first thing I have to say about this book is that it's funny and will make the reader understand how a super large family really can make it financially.
I read this book the first time because it was required in junior high (now known as middle school). I just read it again with my teenage daughters to maybe bring some understanding to them about saving time and money and that time is money. This father is the king of creative spending and overlapping chores to save time.
A very enjoyable book to read. This is an excellent book to co-read with your children of any age and might help you get a few frugal points accross to them.
It's a comical read laced with some very neccesary ideas of financial knowledge.
This is a quick book to read, and in my case a shared time of family financial understanding. Don't pass up reading this fun book. It'll make you laugh and think..."That's a good idea." reading about dad's fanatical penny pinching ways.
A great story that everyone should read.
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Summary: IT AINT TOO SHABBY!!!!!
Review: This book was funny although not good enough to be a can't-put-it dowm book. But it had its humor points and all-in-all the book wasn't bad. The Gilbreths' childhood is a memorable one, and if you're the kind that love humourous bios, then this is the book for you! I appreciate the book's educational value and commend it! I promise you that you will enjoy reading this book, if nothing else.
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Summary: "Cheaper By The Dozen"
Review: Has a story been so good that it made you laugh out loud? Well Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carry wrote an excellent biography of their childhood titled, "Cheaper by the Dozen." It is a very funny book. It is full of all the adventures the Gilbreth family went throgh in the first two decades of the 20th century. Can you imagine having to take care of 12 kids and a dog? That would be a pretty hard job. I love reading this book especially when their father (Mr. Gilbreth) was teaching the kids Morse code. All over the house on every wall was Morse code. The kids had to find out what they said. Some would say, "Go to my room and under my bed is a deck of cards." I encourage any one who loves non-fiction biography to read this book. I am sure you will like it too. If you don't like it in the beginning you should stick with it because it gets extremely good at the end.
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Summary: Cheer for Cheaper by the Dozen
Review: Cheaper by the Dozen, by Frank B. Gilbreth, is an excellent book because is makes people who read it laugh. For example, one time father yells at the people on the sidewalk and calls them funny names. The reason this is so funny is because you don't often see grown men yelling at each other in public. Then there is the time that Lillian bobbed her hair on her own. This is funny because the results are disastrous. This book should be read by all middle-schoolers who enjoy a good laugh.
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Summary: If you don't buy it, at least borrow it from the library!!!
Review: If you like hilarious books, this is one of the best. I have read it at least a dozen times (no pun intended). I'm sixteen and while my friends read stupid trashy romances, I read fun stuff like this. So forget what the cool kids read and read something satisfying!
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Summary: All American yet Unique
Review: The Gilbreth Family is a delight to read about. The Gilbreths have 12 children and the father runs his family like a well oiled machine. As an entrepreneaur, Mr. Gilbreth often uses his family as guinea pigs for his research providing a lot of laughs. As you learn about the highlights of growing up with the Gilbreth family you will find many laugh out loud moments and feel a part of this large and loving family. You will probably see a little bit of your own childhood as well.
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