Spic-and-Span!: Lillian Gilbreth's Wonder Kitchen (Great Idea Series)

A touching family portrait that also happens to be very, very funny. . . its appeal is timeless. Jonathan Yardley, Washington PostOne 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 fathera famous efficiency expertwho 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 and a remake featuring Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Hilary Duff, and Alyson Stoner this memoir is a delightfully enduring story of family life at the turn of the twentieth century.