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An efficiency expert who belives that a family can be run just like a factory and his engineer wife use scientific principles to raise their twelve children, in a new edition of the heartwarming memoir. Reprint.
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“Gay and lighthearted...One of the most amusing books.” (Chicago Sun-Times)
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“Always entertaining, occasionally hilarious, occasionally touching.... Sound Americana.” (Saturday Review of Literature)
“Instructive, funny, and very readable.” (School Library Journal)
Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. was born in 1911 in Plainfield, New Jersey, and graduated from the University of Michigan. He became a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy during World War II and received a Bronze Star and Air Medal. In 1947, he joined the staff of what is now the Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina. A columnist and reporter, he authored and coauthored several books, including Belles on Their Toes (with Ernestine Gilbreth Carey), How to Be a Father, and Time Out for Happiness. In 1950, he was corecipient (with his sister) of the French International Humor Award for Cheaper by the Dozen. He died in 2001.
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey was born in 1908 in New York City and graduated as an English major from Smith College. In 1930, soon after graduation, she began fourteen years of New York City department store buying and management. Meanwhile, she married and had two children. A writer and lecturer, she has authored and coauthored seven books, including Belles on Their Toes (with Frank Gilbreth Jr.), Jumping jupiter, Rings Around Us, and Giddy Moment. In 1950 she was corecipient (with her brother) of the French International Humor Award for Cheaper by the Dozen. She lives in Reedley, California.
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- EditoreHarper Perennial Modern Classics
- Data di pubblicazione2021
- ISBN 10 006008460X
- ISBN 13 9780060084608
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine207
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. "A touching family portrait that also happens to be very, very funny. . . its appeal is timeless." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington PostOne of the best-loved American memoirs of an oversized family and the parents who held them together - now a Disney+ movie starring Gabrielle Union and Zach Braff.What do you get when you put twelve lively kids together with a father--a famous efficiency expert--who believes families can run like factories, and a mother who is his partner in everything except discipline? You get a hilarious tale of growing up that has made generations of kids and adults alike laugh along with the Gilbreths in Cheaper by the Dozen.Translated into more than fifty-three languages and made into numerous films over the years -- including a classic film starring Myrna Loy and a cult favorite with Steve Martin, Hilary Duff, and Alyson Stoner -- this memoir is a delightfully enduring story of family life at the turn of the twentieth century. What do you get when you put twelve lively kids together with a father — a famous efficiency expert — who believes families can run like factories, and a mother who is his partner in everything except discipline? You get a hilarious tale of growing up that has made generations of kids and adults alike laugh along with the Gilbreths in "Cheaper by the Dozen," Translated into more than fifty-three languages and made into a classic film starring Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy, "Cheaper by the Dozen" is a delightfully enduring story of family life at the turn of the 20th century. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780060084608
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