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Summary: Cheaper By the Dozen
Review: Cheaper by the Dozen - By Frank and Ernestine Gilbreth "Cheaper by the Dozen" is the autobiography on the Gilbreth family. What makes the Victorian-era family so remarkable is that there were twelve children, all red-headed, and more remarkably, they were born in just a seventeen year span. In the early 1900's, the future parents of the children, Frank and Lillie, married. On the honeymoon to California, Lillie asked her husband jokingly how many children they should have. The response was, "Let's sell out for a dozen. No less." The book is written by Frank Jr and Ernestine Gilbreth, but the point of view is from all the children. Life in the household was never dull by any standards. Although it would seem the children would make all the noise, it was usually Frank, who loved being with children and playing games and jokes, sometimes even more than the kids. But most of all, he was proud of his family. "How can you afford so many kids?", a stranger would ask. Frank would say, "They come cheaper by the dozen, I guess." The personality of their father kept the kids sane and well behaved throughout the years of regulations.
But it was not much longer after the oldest, Anne, had attended prom that Frank's long battle with a bad heart started catching up on him. He had known about this problem for several years, but had kept the pressure off his children. The idea of his death was so far-fetched to the minds of the 12 kids that on a sunny Saturday morning when their mother informed them Frank has passed away, it took years for the news to fully sink in. Lille Gilbreth took over the successful business of industrial engineering her husband had started upon his death. Most importantly, the family stayed together throughout the years of struggle that followed the tragedy.
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Summary: Cheaper by the Dozen
Review: Cheaper by the Dozen, written by Frank B. Gilbreth Carey, is a marvelous book. In this story the Gilbreths usually stay around the house, although sometimes they go on "field trips." The main characters are Anne, Bill, Lill, Dan, Ernestine, Jack, Mart, Bob, Jane, Frank Jr., Fred, and Martha. Anne is the oldest,then Ernestine, Martha, and so on. They all have red hair and tons of freckles.
Can you imagine having TWELVE children to look after? Mom (Lillian Gilbreth) and Dad (Frank Gilbreth) try to juggle this task. The reader would like this book because it is about a family that has a barrel of fun and adventure. The reader would also like this book because it is funny at times, but serious at the right moments. If you read Cheaper by the Dozen, you'll never regret it.
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Summary: Cheaper by the Dozen, yeah right
Review: I really enjoyed this book. It is the humorous story of a mother and father, who is a motion study expert. Together they raise a dozen children. It has funny anecdotes about their real life and all the crazy things they do. The father is always testing his motion study on the kids, and what happens is always hilarious. It also tells about their maritime adventures every summer in Nantucket. Though this family goes through many scrapes and quarrels, they are resilient and always persevere.
I love this book and would recommend it to anyone with a sense of humor wishing for a funny book. This book dominates my top ten list of books.
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Summary: A FUNNY BOOK!! YOU'LL LOVE IT !!
Review: I loved this book. It is one of my favorites. There is much to be learned by seeing how this family made it through the trials of raising 12 kids. One of my favorite stories is how the dad gets the kids to learn the Morse Code during their Summer Vacation. YOU'LL LOVE THIS BOOK TOO. --George Stancliffe
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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: 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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