Sewing Friendship is sweet tale of five girls who work together to get ready for a fashion show. Each girl needs to use her unique skills to design, measure, create, do the model’s make-up, and model the outfit. Four of the girls are friends and the beginning of the book. By the end of the book the four girls have to learn to work and get along with a girl they have seen as their enemy. Why? The contest states you have to have five member of your team and one has to be a certain age. What they learn is that their nemesis Kiki is really someone who would be a good friend. They learn to “sew a friendship”
I really enjoyed the biographies she created at the beginning of the book. It gave me a heads up as to what each girl was really like. I got a little lost in the middle of the book and was able to refer to the bios to help me get back on track. The book’s beautiful illustrations and word pictures painted by the author held my attention as the tale unfolded.
This special story was written by Natalie Tinti. Natalie is ten years old. She writes this book from her perspective and in the voice of a ten year old. It really helps the reader see things through her eyes. The feelings and thoughts of the characters are right on the surface much as I would venture a ten year old girl’s maybe. It is not surprising that Natalie was a finalist in the Favorite Review and Award Contest in the Children’s Chapter Book Category.
It is available through Amazon.com and GoogleBooks.com.
Disclaimer: I was sent a copy of this book to review. I am giving it to a friend with a girl just the right age for it.
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