Coraline

Coraline is a 2002 dark fantasy novella by the British writer Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Dave McKean, which won the Hugo, Nebula and Bram Stoker awards and was adapted as a stop-motion film in 2009. Bored in her family's new flat, young Coraline Jones finds a locked door that opens onto a mirror version of her home, where her button-eyed 'Other Mother' offers her everything she wants if she will stay forever. Coraline must use her courage and wits to rescue her parents and escape.

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Margaret Atwood: “This is technically a children’s book, but be careful what sort of child you give it to, or that child will have to be pried out from under the bed. “Button eyes,” I whisper.”