StoryScapes with Anoosha Syed

Telling Tales’ StoryScapes returns this fall with three exciting new events in the series. Join digital wizard and author, Marty Chan, as he hosts engaging virtual workshops on November 5, November 19, and December 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM ET.

What to Expect:

In each session you’ll meet a Canadian illustrator from Telling Tales’ 2025 Reading List, hear a reading of the picture book they illustrated, and learn about how they create art in their own unique style. 

Each session will also feature a take home project! Based on a creative prompt inspired by the themes present in the featured book, participants will be invited to make their own unique creation using the same artistic style shared by the participating illustrator. Submit your artwork to Telling Tales’ Try My Style Project for a chance to win copies of the featured story! (Details on how to submit your art will go out to registrants following each workshop.)

These workshops are perfect for children in Grades 1 to 6.

Meet the Featured Illustrator:

Anoosha Syed - November 5, 2025

Presented as part of I Read Canadian Day celebrations, in partnership with Forest of Reading

In this session you will meet Anoosha Syed! Anoosha is a woman who wears many hats! One of those hats is being an illustrator of over forty children’s books! In this session she’ll share how she created the gorgeously vibrant and textured illustrations in Anitha Rao-Robinson’s story Sari Sisters with a mix of mediums.