Natalie
Tinti is a fifth grader living in Southern California. With
her passion and talent of illustrating, she has won many awards for her
excellence. Natalie's book, Sewing a Friendship, in 2010 was
4 times awarded.
In addition, Miss Tinti received a
certificate of achievement and was recognized as an honor student at
her
elementary school.
Natalie is promoting her school's theme "Kindness is Cool" and she believes friendships are an
important part of
our lives that can be created when we have the courage to include
others.
The Four best of friends, who are 7-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 9-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 too. "We can use newspapers, leaves, flowers, floppy toys, dog hair, candy wraps, super glue, peanut butter and gel,..." excitedly pasted Jonsy, as she starts to lists ideas. Everything seemed as though it would work out, except one little thing: an invitation stated that every team should have five people and their model should be at least 9-year-old.
Do you believe that kids can do remarkable things when they set their minds to it? The girls, age 7 and 9, from Sewing a Friendship 2, with a little mystery, humor, Grandma, spy-dog, and Feng Shui, do.
"Agent 55: We're all done for!" whispered the spy-dog, Dogon, to his Master, Babushka, after he delivered secret agent notes to the four best friends of Nina, who was injured. Trying to help Nina with injury, the girls start to look for ways to help her feel better:" Umm...clean her room? Play Monopoly or Scramble? Read a Scary book? Dance? No, wait, I got it!! Let's make up a story!" one of Nina's friends exclaims. And the girls create their imagination stories full of fun and excitements with different characters, unique talents and powers of elements to help heal Nina, but little do they know something is missing in order to fully heal their friend.
Also at the end this book has an Ad-libs. So buckle
up for a story that will touch your heart, mind, and soul!
Tell us a
little about the storyline of Sewing a Friendship.
What
inspired you to write it and why?
Are the
characters based on anyone you know?
How did you
come up with the interesting names of your characters in Sewing a
Friendship?
How did you
developed them for your book?
How did you
balance the time between doing your schoolwork and writing a book?
What do you
think people need to do to make more friends?
What is
your favorite book?
When you
are
not writing, what do you enjoy doing?
How long
did it
take you to write Sewing a Friendship?
At
what age did you and/or your parents realize you had these special
abilities?
When you
get older, would you like to continue being an author or would you
like to do something else?
Do you have
a grandmother who rides a motorbike?
Do you plan
to write more books in the future?
What is the
best way for our audience to purchase Sewing a Friendship?
This is your chance
to talk to a large audience of kids and their parents. What would you
like to say them?
TIP SHEETS
An award-winning 10-year-old
author says it’s easier than most children
think to make new friends. “You have to stop waiting for
others to
discover who you are,” advises Natalie Tinti, author of Sewing a
Friendship. “Start
discovering your happiness and sharing it with others. It
will help you create wonderful,
long-lasting friendships.” Read all 5 tips
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