Magic today?

Today I'm going to talk about magic and two books: "Fablehaven" and "Artemis Fowl". I think they're really interesting because of... magic exactly. Both tell about it - but not as spectacular as J. R. R. Tolkien or J. K. Rowling, so it's possible that you haven't heard about them. However both of them answer a difficult question: where's magic today? Tolkien's elves leaves Middle-Earth, Rowling's wizards hide or mix with muggles and magical creatures are dying (giants).
It is noteworthy that writers imagine those creatures in very different ways. Eoin Colfer like Tolkien says that they're as smart as people (or even more). Brandon Mull and Rowling treats magical beings like animals (except those that are people in part). And in Harry Potter's world there are only a few giants left, but it's Mull who finds out way to protect magical creatures. Think logically: what people do when the animals become extinct? They create nature reserves. And that's what you can find in "Fablehaven".
In Artemis Fowl's world (and it's actually our world) magic is hidden too. But there fairies seem to be smarter than people so it's not human beings who keep them in secret (although it was them who caused it).
Fairies hide under ground and they create unbelievable technology. This is actually quite unusual comination of magic and science. In "Harry Potter" there is completly different situation; wizards know magic but they still write letters by birds' feather on the parchment, when Muggles send each other mails. So what's happening when one community has got magic and technology?
That's in "Artemis Fowl".
And finally the books are rather for children...
... and that's great.
I love those books because there's action. Nobody tries bore kids by long nature descriptions.
And that's why I think "Fablehaven" and "Artemis Fowl" are worth reading.
(It's almost the end)
So... there were several things that I didn't like in those books (like "childish" fairies in "Fablehaven" or strange inconsistency in "Artemis" - about Foaly's persecution mania), but they're both really worth reading.
They say a lot about magic today, about how magic copes with science and technology and about people trying to control it.