Cheaper by the Dozen

Version: Unabridged
Author: Frank B. Gilbreth , Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Narrator: Dana Ivey
Genres: Juvenile and Children's, Fiction
Publisher: Listening Library
Date: July 2005
Length: 6 hours, 5 minutes
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Formats:
  • CD

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Overview

No growing pains have ever been more hilarious than those suffered loudly by the riotous Gilbreth clan. First, there are a dozen red-haired, freckle-faced kids to contend with. Then there's Dad, a famous efficiency expert who believes a family can be run just like a factory. And there's Mother, his partner in everything except discipline. How they all survive such escapades as forgetting Frank, Jr., in a roadside restaurant or going on a first date with Dad in the backseat or having their tonsils removed en masse will keep you in stitches. You can be sure they're not only cheaper, they're funnier by the dozen.

Selected Reviews

Cheaper By The Dozen

by spltx
  • Book Rating: 5/5

Cheaper By The Dozen

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 4/5

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Reviews (2)

Cheaper By The Dozen

Written by spltx from Carrollton, TX on July 2nd, 2009

  • Book Rating: 5/5

I pick my nine year old granddaughter up from school every day. We both like to listen to audiobooks on the 30 minute drive home. Many times because of her age and the age appropriate content of the book that we are listening to I want to jump out of the car for some relief LOL. Although there were things in Cheaper that she didn't understand because of the era of the story, it gave us lots to discuss. A delightful book for both of us.

Cheaper By The Dozen

Written by Anonymous on August 17th, 2007

  • Book Rating: 4/5

What fun! Makes me wish I had 11 siblings. The narration was great also. I do wish the few cuss words had been left out. They "cheapen" the story.

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Cheaper By The Dozen

by spltx
  • Book Rating: 5/5

Cheaper By The Dozen

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 4/5

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Author Details

Author Details

Gilbreth Carey, Ernestine

Carey is the author of Cheaper By the Dozen, which documented the adventures of the Gilbreth clan, which included six sons and six daughters and parents Lillian Moller Gilbreth and Frank Bunker Gilbreth. Carey had only two childrem herself after taking care of younger siblings for much of her life after her father died while she was still a teenager. She was 98 when she died in 2006.