FREE Storytime with Elys Dolan at Cambridge Central Library
Fri 20 Feb 2026 | 10:30am - 11:30am
Join us this February half-term for a very special event in partnership with the Cambridge Central Library.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it’s Super Snail!
Join author and illustrator Elys Dolan as she reads her picture book Super Snail. By day Kevin is a mild-mannered slug, but by night he puts on his shell and becomes Super Snail! Will he be able to save the city from the super villain Laser Pigeon? Come along to find out.
You’ll have the chance to practice your illustration skills by learning how to draw Super Snail with Elys, and you’ll even help to design a brand new super hero.
To book a place, visit the Cambridge Central Library Eventbrite page.
Venue: Cambridge Central Library
Duration: 1 hour
About this event
This event is delivered in partnership with the Cambridge Central Library.
Free but booking essential. Parents/carers to stay with their children at all times. Please note that children and accompanying adults require one ticket each.
This event will be held in the children’s section at Cambridge Central Library, which is at the rear of the first floor of the library. Baby changing facilities are available, and there is an area to leave buggies in the children’s library. The library is wheelchair accessible and there is Blue Badge parking in the Grand Arcade shopping centre. There is an accessible toilet with radar key access.
For full details of Central’s facilities, please visit their website. You can also visit Euan’s Guide and AccessAble for more detailed accessibility information about this venue.
Author Biography
Elys Dolan grew up in a place that consisted of a house, a tree and a field. She lived in the house, played in the field and occasionally fell out of the tree. Later, Elys amassed an extensive collection of colouring pencils and went to study on the MA in Children’s Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art. She’s been writing and illustrating children’s book ever since.
When not making books Elys grows cacti, collects pocket watches and waits for the day that someone will bake her banana bread. She’s a lecturer on the MA in Children’s Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art where she does a lot of loud speaking. Elys also has a PhD in humour in picture books, so she’s technically Dr Dolan of doing funny pictures.
