Coraline is a book that I would (and I probably will, buhahahaha) recommend to anyone who enjoys a good dark-ish story with a releatable protagonist and some nice and a bit weird characters. I would definitely label it just as a children's book, because it has much more to it. It is clever, wicked and some of the quotes (loads of them made it into my actual quote book where I gather my favourite lines from all the books I read) will live with me forever.
What I really appreciated about it (besides Coraline feeding dog chocolates, of course), was the real rawness in which some, maybe most of children
happen to be. Their parents busy with own agendas often push them away which results into children creating their own worlds, for a lack of better places in their own life. This was not my case, as I was a loner and my imaginary friends even though my parents actually DID play with me, but nowadays, as a responsible adult, I feel with Coraline so much. Much more than when I was a child.