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Belles on Their Toes
Belles on Their Toes
Author: Frank B. Gilbreth, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
ISBN-13: 9780060598235
ISBN-10: 0060598239
Publication Date: 12/1/2003
Pages: 240
Reading Level: Young Adult
Rating:
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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4.1 stars, based on 17 ratings
Publisher: Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 3
I've always loved the book, "Cheaper By the Dozen", but I didn't know there was a sequel until I ran across the movie version on TV a year or so ago. Now I wish I had known about it before, as this book picked up right where CBtD left off, and continues the story of the Gilbreth family after their father dies.
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Helpful Score: 2
Book Description

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.
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This is the sequal to cheaper by the dozon. It tells about the single mother and 11 children and how they live following the death of their father in the previous book. The mother is one of the first time management engineers, she is completing the work that her husband started and is very good at it. It is based on a true story and written by the two oldest of the childern when they grew up.