Both the parents were engineers (alert to all you female engineer readers out there – I know there are at least two of you!) and worked together as “efficiency experts” for a bunch of major companies.
When the book was finished, I cried for at least an hour.Ĭheaper by the Dozen is a true story about a family with twelve children (only eleven lived, but “Cheaper by the Eleven” is a fairly stupid title) in the 1910s and 20s. My dad, as was his habit, had read small sections of the book to us previously, but I’d never read the whole thing and I had no idea what was coming. The copy of Cheaper by the Dozen we owned was very old (probably from my Dad’s childhood) and had huge chunks of pages were falling out. It was only rarely that my dad would choose a book and read it to us, but when he did have a book he wanted to read to us, we knew it would be fantastic. My sisters and I would braid each others hair and paint our toenails while she read aloud. Growing up, my mom read to us nearly every night before we went to bed. It has zero resemblance to the (very lame) Steve Martin movie. It makes me laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time. 10 out of 10: Cheaper by the Dozen is one of my all-time favorite books, one I’ve read over and over again.
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