News of note for readers: December 3, 2025

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

• Kids Can Press, which publishes Paulette Bourgeois’s Franklin the Turtle books, issued a statement condemning "any denigrating, violent, or unauthorized use of Franklin's name or image" after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tweeted an AI-generated image of Franklin firing a grenade from a military helicopter (Literary Hub).

• More politics news, this time from libraries; Maine libraries may soon be required to pay their directors, while the reported results for a New York library's budget proposal are being contested (Book Riot).

• David Pryce-Jones, who wrote ten novels and eighteen works of nonfiction, including biographies, travelogues, and histories, along with essays, died November 17 at age eighty-nine (The New York Times).

• The Guardian has added the sports and science/nature best-books-of-2025 lists to its ongoing collection.

• Watch the trailer for Netflix's adaptation of People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry; the movie begins streaming January 9 (YouTube).

• Meanwhile, here are a number of other book adaptations you can watch in December (Book Riot).