The four best friends, who are seven-year-old girls, are super excited about the start of summer! Their adventure begins with getting out of school and talking about a pink sleepover. But things do not run smoothly when nine-year-old Kiki, the rival girl, gets in the way by uninviting the girls to a famous fashion show. When she mentioned, "But of course you're not invited. What a shame! Ha," the girls dash to Sokron's house to talk of how they could be in the fashion show also. "We can use newspapers, leaves, flowers, floppy toys, dog hair, candy wraps, super glue, peanut butter, and gel,..." excitedly pasted Jonsy, as she started to list ideas. Everything seemed as though it would work out, except one little thing: an invitation stated that every team must have five people and their model should be at least nine years old.
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Natalie Tinti is a fourth grader at the Vintage Hills Elementary School in Southern California. With her passion and talent for illustrating, she has won many awards. Currently, Natalie is helping to promote the theme "Kindness is Cool" at her elementary school. This includes assisting others by writing thank-you letters to students in response to their kindness. Through these efforts, Natalie stresses the importance of friendship and how students should persevere in being nice to everyone. Natalie believes that friendship is an important part of life and could be created when we have the courage to include others, and that having fun is our way to be the part of the Universe.
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Natalie Tinti was born in 1999, California. Her amazing innate writing talent showed through in her first grade essays and continues to be her unique way to express herself.
Natalie decided to write the popular kids' book, Sewing a Friendship (won seven prestigious national awards), because she noticed several children at her school who appeared to have trouble making friends.
In addition to being a prolific young author and illustrator, Natalie studies acting and speaks publicly at various venues in Southern California. Her inspirational message encourages other children to follow their own dreams.
More about Natalie at http:sewingafriendship.com
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book about the value of friendship,
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This review is from: Sewing a Friendship (Perfect Paperback)
This is a great book for kids all ages, especially girls, since it really expands
on the subject of friendship in a very playfull & exciting manner. The book is about five girls and the problems they encounter with "sewing a friendship". They main story revolves around the fashion show & "pink sleepovers". This book was written by a ten-year old girl, who is able to describe the emotions & fantasies of the girls her own age much better than any adult would. Thus, I would recommend this book to any parent who wants to promote healthy relationships with friends in their child, while keeping them excited and interested in reading.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Beauty of Friendship,
This review is from: Sewing a Friendship (Perfect Paperback)
This past weekend I had the pleasure of participating in the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books held at UCLA. This particular event is awesome as an author to see the number of people all excited about books. It helps give me faith in the path I am pursuing in continuing to write and produce stories for readers. I love having the chance to talk with my target readers and find out some of their interests. One of the additional joys of participating in book festivals is the opportunity to meet other authors face to face and talk with them. I was delighted to meet Natalie Tinti in person at the festival. Ms. Tinti is a poised, professional, 10-year old, who has written and illustrated a book about friendship. She not only had books, but also had colorful illustrated posters from her book to help promote her product.
Sewing a Friendship starts with a picture of each of the characters in the book and character profile of each, answering the questions of birth date, age, family, eye color, hair color, favorite food, favorite color, and specialty. For the target age group Natalie is writing for, I found this to be a nice way to start the story. The reader then knows who the characters are that they will meet and have a visual they can refer to if they need to during the course of reading the book. As a young reader, I always loved character profiles, just a little snippet about the character outside of the actual text. Then I would compare throughout my reading experience to see if the author kept true to the profile, or whether I could spot any discrepancies. The story starts with the wind blowing through town and checking on each of the main characters at each house along the way. Ms. Tinti has very unique character names. Along with the wind, you meet the four friends, Sokron Blossom, Nina Key, Meeka Venya, Jonsy Jipsy, and the outcast Kiki Shaver. In addition to the friends and Kiki, there is Sokron's grandma, Babushka and her dog, Dogon. The four friends get together to have a beginning of summer sleep over. Then they find out about a fashion show and are excited to participate. However, Kiki Shaver threatens to stop their participation. The girls find because of the rules, they need Kiki and Kiki needs them and through working together they are able to become friends by seeing the value in each other. My favorite character is Dogon, as he snoops on the girls and helps to ensure the friendship is knit together. The illustrations are delightful and highly colorful, and each chapter has a different border, which makes it a happy read. I look for a bright future for this young author and illustrator.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Whimsical and Fun,
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This review is from: Sewing a Friendship (Hardcover)
Sewing a Friendship, by Natalie Tinti , is a wonderful inspiring story with lessons in friendship. In this chapter book you will find four sweet 7 year olds girls planning a PINK SLEEPOVER, and preparing for a fashion show. The author has written a story using whimsical names such as, Sokron Blossom, Nina Key, Meeka Venya, and Jonsy Jipsy. With character names like these you can imagine how special this story is going to be. The girls decide to participate in a fashion show and begin to sew the clothes themselves. But, there is one problem, only 9-year-olds are allowed to model in the show and they need five participants. The four girls befriend Kiki Shaver, a 9 year-old they thought was not a nice girl.
The characters get to know Kiki, become friends and work together to accomplish their goals. The fashion show turns out to be a big success and they learn valuable lessons in friendship. I particularly like the beginning of the book where you will find an introduction to all the characters. Each character is outlined with information about their birthday, hair color, favorite food, and specialty just to mention a few. Each profile includes a full page drawing of the character. I know readers will be able to identify with the characters and maybe even imagine that they are one of them. Did I mention that this book is authored and illustrated by a 10-year-old? Natalie Tinti has written this imaginative story that girls between the ages of 6 and 8 will love reading over and over again. The age appropriate vocabulary used by the author relates to how girls in this age group talk on a daily basis. Kids will relate to this text and will really enjoy the story. Readers will find colorful words and phrases in this story for example, Jonsy's father asked her what she would like for breakfast and she responds, "I feel like a cherry with vanilla ice-cream, a cup of dragon tea with a yellow umbrella, and a huge hot chocolate cake". This book is filled with glossy bright original Magna style drawings throughout. I highly recommend this book, and Natalie Tinti will be an author to watch for in the future.
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