I think it would be very difficult to cultivate a love of reading in any child, solely using recently published children's books. In my opinion, many of them can't realistically compete for children's attention in a world of iPads, gaming consoles and so on. I wouldn't have read them myself as a child, and I read everything.
A fair few have the same checklist feel that you'd experience reading GCSE French coursework on My Hobbies or What I Do On My Holidays: teachers always tell pupils (truthfully!) that in order to access the publishing contracts higher grade bands, you must include at least three tenses, show you can conjugate irregular verbs, use a range of adjectives, and use a range of pronouns (as in, first person plural and singular, third person singular, and using subject, object and reflexive pronouns appropriately). It gets the job done, of demonstrating that you can write about a topic using grammatically correct French, but it's still writing to a checklist. It doesn't produce anything you'd want to read for pleasure!
That's fine from 15 year olds writing essays for a GCSE language course for a marker who is paid to endure reading the musings of dozens of teenagers. Children aren't paid to read the multiple versions of 200 Pages of Regurgitating the Information From A EDI Course I Was On to Prove I Was Listening: a Novel.