Ivey’s voice is perfectly suited to the story, and the various voices she provides for each of the distinct characters really helped me to get a fuller picture of their personalities and senses of humor. I listened to the audiobook version of this title, which was released in 1994 and narrated by Dana Ivey. Gilbreth’s amusing encounter with proponents of birth control, to the older girls’ ingenious capture of a peeping Tom, this book makes the reader feel as though he or she is one of the family, and in on all of the family jokes. From the car rides in the family automobile, Foolish Carriage, to Mrs. The book relates a series of charmingly funny anecdotes from the Gilbreth kids’ childhood in Montclair, New Jersey, focusing chiefly on the love shared between their parents and their father’s wonderfully larger-than-life personality. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, who, along with their 10 other siblings, were the children of time and motion study and efficiency experts Frank and Lillian Gilbreth. Cheaper by the Dozen is the 1948 memoir of Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr.
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