One of the best-loved American memoirs of an oversized family and the parents who held them together. 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, this memoir is a delightfully enduring story of family life at the turn of the 20th century. Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey are two of the now famous Gilbreth dozen. Frank, Jr., is deceased. "From the Trade Paperback edition." Personal Memoirs Topic - Marriage & Family