‘Seeing your own community in a story matters’

A new children’s book series, set against the backdrop of Wolverhampton’s Chapel Ash area, has been launched by a local author.

Satnam Rakhra’s The Kids from Chapel Ash is a series of 11 books about growing up in Wolverhampton.

Rakhra said he rarely saw himself reflected in the books he read as a child in school.

“The characters rarely looked like me, lived where I lived, or came from families like mine,” he said, “I wanted today’s children to have something different.”

‘Seeing your own community in a story matters’, BBC