Natalie Tinti

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. The most recently are: 1. Finalist 2010 in the Children;s Picture Book, Softcover Category hosted by International Book Awards; 2. Winner 2010 in Children's Motivation Category hosted by National Indie Excellence Awards 3. Winner Spring 2010 Pinnacle Achievement Award hosted by the North American Bookdealers Exchange 4.Silver Medal in the 2009 award contest hosted by the nationally recognized Readers Favorite Book Reviews. Back in 2004, as a five-year-old, Natalie won first place for the poster contest at the city Annual Artists Event. That same year, she achieved first place for the Visual Arts Primary Division at her school. In 2007, her art piece was placed in the Promenade Mall at the Youth Art Exhibition hosted by the Temecula Valley Art Council. In addition, Miss Tinti received a certificate of achievement and was recognized as an honor student at her elementary school. Since the publication of her book, Sewing a Friendship, Natalie participated in a book reading, a book signing and a book presentation everywhere. Currently, Natalie is promoting her school's theme "Kindness is Cool" by writing gratitude letters to fellow students in response to their acts of kindness. Through these efforts Natalie stresses the importance of friendships and how students should persevere in being nice to everyone.