{"id":734414,"date":"2025-03-04T14:24:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/?p=734414"},"modified":"2025-03-04T14:24:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:24:01","slug":"childrens-book-author-derrin-gleaton-is-on-a-giveback-tour-to-schools-in-charlotte-north-carolina-following-his-fourth-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/childrens-book-author-derrin-gleaton-is-on-a-giveback-tour-to-schools-in-charlotte-north-carolina-following-his-fourth-book-launch_734414.html","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s Book Author Derrin Gleaton is on a &#8220;Giveback Tour&#8221; to Schools in Charlotte, North Carolina, Following his Fourth Book Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-style:italic; padding:8px 0px;\">The GiveBack Tour is Derrin\u2019s way of reaching out to the kids in Charlotte by reading his books, singing his songs, and teaching them how to make bow ties<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Derrin Gleaton is excited to share that his GiveBack Tour is going as planned, with unexpected impact and milestones recorded so far. The children&rsquo;s book author embarked on the Tour to give back to the community where he has lived all these years. He is using the opportunity to visit and read to students in different schools and PreKs in Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/upload\/2025\/03\/c55f5a6a65126d5dc9128570b2f19780.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"649\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year, he has read in several schools in the neighborhood and spent a few reading days at the Archive and Park Road Books. At each reading, Derrin looks forward to spreading joy, having fun, reading his books, dancing with the kids, and simply having a good time with them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/upload\/2025\/03\/56db21b1f5decf1aa52fae71f0a4e43a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"671\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Derrin is an award-winning author of four children&rsquo;s books, including You Can Be Fly, Let&rsquo;s Stick Together, Just Bee Yourself, and a recently released Stuck in Her Shell. All of these books can be gotten at local book stores like The Park Road Book Store and The Paper Skyscraper. Derrin&rsquo;s books can also be found on all major online platforms, like Amazon, Walmart, Target, Barnes and Noble, and more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has made guest appearances on Spectrum News, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecharlottepost.com\/news\/2023\/01\/19\/arts-and-entertainment\/fashion-designer-breaks-into-a-new-space-author\/\">The Charlotte Post<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wccbcharlotte.com\/2023\/07\/27\/childrens-book-author-derrin-gleaton-shares-inspiration-and-joy\/\">WCCB news<\/a> and has been featured in many newspaper articles. Her recognition also extends to awards, such as the<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/read-charlotte_reading-hero-derrin-gleaton-read-charlotte-activity-7165762413827477504-FPc_\/\"> &ldquo;Reading Hero&rdquo; of Read Charlotte<\/a> and for giving back to the community here in Charlotte, NC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Derrin isn&rsquo;t writing books or reading to children, he is making beautiful bowties that are currently on sale at <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swaggbows.com\">www.swaggbows.com<\/a>. Customers with specific designs are attended to, and Derrin also teaches kids how to make bowties as part of giving back to the community on his GiveBack Tour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Books and bowties aren&rsquo;t the only things Derrin is involved with. The author is also a songwriter, and his discography has three children&#8217;s songs out on all platforms: &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s Stick Together, A Good Day, and The Alphabet Train.&rdquo; These three songs encourage children as well as adults to have a good day and to stick together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Derrin also makes content for children on his YouTube channel &ldquo;Mr.Swagg Bow&rdquo; to teach kids from the age of one to five years old rhyming words.<\/p>\n<p><span style='font-size:18px !important;'>Media Contact<\/span><br \/><strong>Company Name:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/companyname\/swaggbows.com_153121.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Swaggbows<\/a><br \/><strong>Contact Person:<\/strong> Author Derrin Gleaton<br \/><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/email_contact_us.php?pr=childrens-book-author-derrin-gleaton-is-on-a-giveback-tour-to-schools-in-charlotte-north-carolina-following-his-fourth-book-launch\" rel=\"nofollow\">Send Email<\/a><br \/><strong>Phone:<\/strong> (704)421-2703<br \/><strong>Country:<\/strong> United States<br \/><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swaggbows.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.swaggbows.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/press_stat.php?pr=childrens-book-author-derrin-gleaton-is-on-a-giveback-tour-to-schools-in-charlotte-north-carolina-following-his-fourth-book-launch\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GiveBack Tour is Derrin\u2019s way of reaching out to the kids in Charlotte by reading his books, singing his songs, and teaching them how to make bow ties Derrin Gleaton is excited to share that his GiveBack Tour is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/childrens-book-author-derrin-gleaton-is-on-a-giveback-tour-to-schools-in-charlotte-north-carolina-following-his-fourth-book-launch_734414.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[448,401,438,417,404],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Books-Literature","category-Business","category-Fitness","category-Marketing-Sales","category-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}