“I didn’t even know about foster care before it happened to me, I want this book to inform people that there is such a thing” – Zak

Our Story is a brand-new book created by care-experienced young artists in Leeds aged 15-25. This is our story, our lives and how different our experiences are.

Serving as a guide to understanding the care experience, this book also teaches you how to make your own comic. Designed as a tool for professionals working with care-experienced young people, creatives, and those going through similar situations, to help shed light on what it means to be in care, from the perspective of those who have lived it.

Brought to you by the British Library and Leeds Children’s Services, facilitated by comic artist Mollie Ray and creative facilitator Sarah Chapleo.