Canadian authors Anoosha Syed and Joel A. Sutherland are among the winners of the 2025 Forest of Reading awards. Hosted each spring, the Forest of Reading is Canada's largest annual recreational ...

Pursuing a career in animation tends to require grit and hard work, so it helps to really want it — to dream of it. But dreams can turn sour, and end up hurting more than helping the person. In a new ...

The universe has a special way of sending us important messages. In this case, it was my friend Michelle texting me a TikTok link about the 1989 Lenox Spice Village collection with three words that ...

Ever thought what your favourite Disney princesses would have been like if they were 21st century girls. Well, Anoosha Syed, a Canadian illustrator reimagined these Disney princesses for you. She ...

On my first day of school in Canada, someone asked me my name in front of the whole class. As 20 other eight-year-old faces turned to look at me, I realized that I didn't look like anybody else in the ...

Princess Amal always danced to the beat of her own tabla. Once upon a time, in the Kingdom of Zammarud, there lived four princesses. The youngest, Princess Amal, always loved to stir up trouble—just ...

Twitter/foxville_art//Warner Bros. An artist has revealed the horrible racist backlash she received after posting a drawing of a black Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter series. Illustrator and ...

An illustrator has shut down racist internet trolls who bombarded her with abuse after she depicted Harry Potter character Hermione Granger as black. On Tuesday, Toronto-based Anoosha Syed revealed ...