When Penguin Random House announced recently that it had acquired world rights to the next two adult coloring books from Johanna Basford, the so-called queen of coloring, it was just the latest sign ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. In 2015, adult coloring books became the dark horse of the ...

Excerpt from the "Executive Coloring Book" by Brenda Jackson, Dennis Altman, Marcie Hans, Martin A. Cohen, and Ronald L. McDonald, published in 1961. Via Ad to the Bone Over the past few years, adult ...

Sure, reading (or re-reading) your favorite book is wonderful, and seeing it come to life on the big and small screen is just fantastic, but have you every tried coloring the stories you are obsessed ...

Coloring books have been around for ages. However, the idea of adults doing them to relieve stress is fairly new. These days, it’s more or less apropos to kids and adults alike to crack open a ...

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If you haven't done it since third grade, it's time to buy a pack of colored pencils.

A few years ago, Scottish illustrator Johanna Basford made her living creating complex black-and-white drawings for brands like Nike and Absolut Vodka. Her clients would joke about wanting to color ...

Atop the Amazon bestselling books list this month sat an unexpected title: “Secret Garden.” It wasn’t Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 novel about a sour little girl’s magical place, making a book club ...

Back in the day, when I was still in the fifth grade at Guardian Angel School in downtown New York City, I had begged my mom to order me a book from Scholastics that would teach me to draw real-life ...

Eisenhower Junior High School is putting crayon to paper in an attempt to make history with a Guinness World Record title.

To show his love for the city and people of Milwaukee, one artist has turned Milwaukeeans into Homies-inspired cartoons.