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 ...

Crayons, of course. Scented markers. Colored pencils, presharpened. And coloring books by the jillions. Why do people like coloring so much? For grown-ups, I can totally get the nostalgia — and the ...

Adult coloring books are all the rage and colored pencil sales can prove it. With so many options for various types of coloring books, it seems natural that the activity would take a customizable ...

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 ...

A TikTok trend has couples and friends exploring how similar — or different — they are. The #colorbooktrend showcases multiple people using various digital coloring books and pages to compare with ...

Editor’s note: A shorter version of this article originally appeared in The Scoop in August. When a group of community members gathers every month at Woods Hole (Mass.) Public Library (WHPL), they try ...