It’s the best beginners series if you have the books memorized, like I (unfortunately) do 
But as a general beginner book without that? No. It’s like all the advice for reading Le Petit Prince in French as a first book. When I was A2-ish that book was way too hard! But if you grew up reading it and knew the story already it would probably be fine.
I somewhat wonder if I should throw La femme de ménage | L30?? into the ring as another B1 book because even though I DNF’d it (I was so bored, sorry 
) it was incredibly plain writing from the first person perspective so no issues of literary flourish or passé simple (grammar form used in a lot of literary works and considered to be B2+ a least by my grammar guides).
