Natalie Tinti – Sewing a Friendship
Natalie Tinti is a fourth grader living in Southern California. With her passion and talent of illustrating, she has won many awards for her excellence. The most recently are the Spring 2010 Pinnacle Achievement Award hosted by the North American Bookdealers Exchange and the 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.
