Anything that gets children reading is fine.
Any story that gets us thinking, and particularly young people, thinking why? Whether it's as a result of reading the book, or coming out of the theatre or the cinema, I think we should just simply be asking the question 'why'? Why did it happen to those people? Was it necessary? And anything that gets us thinking like that is really important.
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
