Cheaper by the Dozen [Paperback]

“A touching family portrait that also happens to be very, very funny. . . its appeal is timeless.” —Jonathan Yardley,Washington Post

One 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 inCheaper 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.

“Gay and lighthearted...One of the most amusing books.” -Chicago Sun-Times

“Always entertaining, occasionally hilarious, occasionally touching.... Sound Americana.” -Saturday Review of Literature

“Instructive, funny, and very readable.” -School Library Journal

“A touching family portrait that also happens to be very, very funny...its appeal is timeless.” -Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

There's fun and sentiment, appreciation and appraisal, and a good time is had by all. -Kirkus Reviews

The book is the greatest possible tribute by children to parents, and a living proof that the Gilbreths, at any rate, had so many children they knew just what to do--to the immense enjoyment and pleasure of all their readers.   -The Christian Science MonitorlÓ0