Might as well review Cheaper By The Dozen now. I just finished skimming the ending.
I'd never, by any whim of a wildest imagination, call this a teen classic. For one thing, a teen classic is about teens. This isn't about teens, it's not even about kids. It's like a...documentary about a very unusual and eccentric man who happens to be the father of twelve children. By choice, too.
So there it is--twelve kids being raised by a wildly eccentric father and a smart, solid, (and flatly drawn!) mother. It's a historically significant documentary . It tells much about American history and family life of the era, and becomes especially interesting toward the end when the girls start wanting bobbed hair, silk stockings and high-heeled slippers. Dear father is aghast.
All that said, it's not a teen classic and I'd never have read this book as a teen. I might have picked it up at some point but I'd never have finished it. Thank heavens it was short.
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