Quick question about Matilda

[Chinmay]

Had a quick question for anybody who can answer.
Would Matilda by Roald Dahl be counted as a children's book. The book has been highly recommended to me by people on Reddit as a antidote to the hangover/exhaustion resulting for reading 1984 :-)

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[Dee]

Any book you read counts