This document provides information about two books: Book Cafè by Julia Donaldson and Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It summarizes the authors' backgrounds, including that Julia Donaldson is known for her popular rhyming children's stories illustrated by Axel Scheffler, and Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles Dodgson, wrote the well-known Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass stories featuring literary nonsense. The document also gives brief reviews of why Julia Donaldson's books make for good read-alouds but suggests waiting to read Alice in Wonderland until being fluent in English due to its complex illustrations, context and dream-like ending. It proposes adapting a book as