Twelve kids raised by parents who were obsessed with efficiency, including a father who was a time-and-motion/efficiency expert well before the Six Sigma era. A hilarious family memoir about living in a household that’s basically a running experiment in efficiency. It’s genuinely funny in that older, situational way, and also unexpectedly warm about what it feels like to grow up inside a giant sibling ecosystem. I read it partly for the jokes and partly because I couldn’t stop wondering how any of those kids ended up normal.
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Cheaper by the Dozen
- "Cheaper by the Dozen" is a bestselling memoir about two parents and their twelve children.
- The book is written by siblings Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey.
- The parents are efficiency experts who apply workplace efficiency ideas to running their home.
- The memoir presents the Gilbreth family life as humorous, chaotic, and heartwarming.
- The story has been translated into more than fifty languages.
- The ebook edition includes an illustrated biography with rare photos from the authors' estates.
- The listed edition is Kindle, part of a two-book "Cheaper by the Dozen" series.
- The print length of this edition is 151 pages.
- The publisher is Open Road Media, with a publication date of November 5, 2013.
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