Uma peça popular e encantadora! Coisa rara é capturar verdadeiramente um momento especial no tempo, e um momento particular na vida de algumas poucas pessoas numa familia. O que torna esta peça excepcional não é apenas que ela faz isso tão lindamente, mas o fato de conter diversão, emoção e numerosas cenas de comédia, que arrancam risadas da plateia. Quatro atraentes irmãs estão empolgadas com a maravilhosa Feira Mundial que está prestes a ser inaugurada em St. Louis em 1905. As garotas também preocupam-se com a vida amorosa de seu único irmão, suspeitando que a doce garota amada esteja prestes a deixar a cidade natal para casar-se com um esnobe oriental. Em meio às manobras bem-humoradas das irmãs para resolver o romance do irmão, o pai anúncia que lhe ofereceram um emprego melhor em Nova York! Mas isto significa deixar a casa em St. Louis e perder a Feira! As meninas se unem para entrarem em ação. ( )

Cute. Funny to think that when the film was made 1904 was our 1980. I had to go back and rewatch the film afterwards and found both to be charming. Here's wishing I lived in such a simple time -- with better dentists.

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Love this book, which is nothing like the movie. Reading it again for the nth time and still charmed by it. Amusing family stories but occasionally there's something that gives it a little more edge - I know when I first read it in junior high, I didn't notice the paragraph where the grandfather remembers his time in Andersonville prison. Which makes you see him as more than the quirky grandpa who enjoys teasing his granddaughters. ( )

I didn’t realize that one of my favorite movies was based on a book until someone on LT mentioned the book. I had to have it! And I really enjoyed it. Although there are some differences in the two versions, as always happens when a book is transferred to the screen, it still has the same spirit as the book and almost all my favorite parts. Possibly this is true because Sally Benson had a hand in writing the screen play. The main differences between the two versions is that the book does not have the two “romance” stories for Rose and Ester and all 4 girls seem to have “equal time” in the episodic stories, one for each month of the year leading up to the opening of the World’s Fair in May 1904. The one advantage the movie has over the book is that you can actually hear the song and see the dancing. This book brings to mind a book I read when I was quite young (and the book was quite old—it had belonged to my grandmother) called Mama’s Bank Account. I’m not sure why; I may have to find a copy of that book to reread. ( )

If you've seen the movie and loved it, and didn't want it to end, then you need to read the book. I'll give a big sigh of contentment here... and let you fill in the rest. ( )