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 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.
