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What do you get when you put twelve lively kids togethe...)
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.
(Use Novel-Ties ® study guides as your total guided readin...)
Use Novel-Ties ® study guides as your total guided reading program. Reproducible pages in chapter-by-chapter format provide you with the right questions to ask, the important issues to discuss, and the organizational aids that help students get the most out of each book they read.
(Cheaper by the Dozen is a biographical novel written by F...)
Cheaper by the Dozen is a biographical novel written by Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, published in 1948. The book was adapted to film by Twentieth Century Fox in 1950. The book tells the story of time and motion study and efficiency experts Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth, and their twelve children, as they reside in Montclair, New Jersey for many years.
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Life is very different now in the rambling Gilbreth hou...)
Life is very different now in the rambling Gilbreth house.When the youngest was two and the oldest eighteen, Dad died and Mother bravely took over his business. Now, to keep the family together, everyone has to pitch in and pinch pennies. The resourceful clan rises to every crisis with a marvelous sense of fun -- whether it's battling chicken pox, giving the boot to an unwelcome boyfriend, or even meeting the President. And the few distasteful things they can't overcome -- like castor oil -- they swallow with good humor and good grace. Belles on Their Toes is a warm, wonderful, and entertaining sequel to Cheaper by the Dozen.
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American writer, educator. Montgomery award Friends of Phoenix Public Library., 1981, honored guest Arizona library Friends, 1994; recipient International Management award: the Gilbreth Medal, Society for Advancement of Management, 1996.
Background
Born in New York City, she was the daughter of Lillian Moller Gilbreth and Frank Bunker Gilbreth, early 20th-century pioneers of time and motion study and what would now be called organizational behavior. She grew up in Montclair, New Jersey.
Education
Bachelor, Smith College, 1929.
Career
The upbringing of the twelve Gilbreth children was chronicled in the successful, comic memoir Cheaper by the Dozen (1948, adapted in a 1950 film). Carey was a graduate of Smith College and worked as a department store buyer and manager for fourteen years. Carey resided in Reedley, California.
She died of natural causes in Fresno, California, aged 98, on November 4, 2006.
Board of directors Right to Read, Inc., since 1968, co-chairman, 1967. Lay advising committee Manhasset (New York) Board Education. Trustee Manhasset Public Library., 1953-1959, vice president, 1956-1959.
Trustee Smith College, 1967-1972. Active in care-preservation and current student use of Frank B. and Lillian M. Gilbreth lifetime papers at various worldwide libraries universities. Member Authors Guild American (life member, member guild council 1955-1960), Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, North Shore Club, Smith College Club (assistant chairman scholarship committee L.I.chpt.
1950-1959), Society Advancement Management, Institute Industrial Engineers, Smith College Club (vice chairman scholarship committee Phoenix chapter), 7 College Conference Council Club (Phoenix).
Connections
Married Charles Everett Carey, September 13, 1930 (deceased 1986). Children: Lillian Carey Barley, Charles Everett.
Montgomery award Friends of Phoenix Public Library., 1981, honored guest Arizona library Friends, 1994. Recipient International Management award: the Gilbreth Medal, Society for Advancement of Management, 1996.
Montgomery award Friends of Phoenix Public Library., 1981, honored guest Arizona library Friends, 1994. Recipient International Management award: the Gilbreth Medal, Society for Advancement of Management, 1996.