News of note for readers: December 19, 2024

Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!

• Jean Adamson, who wrote and illustrated more than 150 children's novels featuring Topsy and Tim, has died at the age of ninety-six (The Guardian).

• For the first time in the prize's fifty-year history, longlists for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards have been released with the public (NBCC website).

• Adult coloring books are back to being popular, and this time around they're a little less complex in their design ... but far more complicated, culturally speaking (Book Riot).