![]() ![]() The second is, Kids like feeling older than they are. ![]() ![]() They are too, I mean yeah, they lack a lot of experience, and have little if any sense of cause and effect, and almost no impulse control, but that could be said for most of the adults I know, and some of those have PHDs. The first is, kids are smarter than you give them credit for. Dumb and silly in all the right ways, Artemis Foul is a surprisingly intelligent book, one that never really talks down to its young audience.Įoin Colfer seems to understand several things that many children’s authors could do to remember. Now, let us say no more about it.Īrtemis Fowl is one of those books that I really wish I had had as a child, but by the time it came out, I had, I felt, grown past such middle grade fare, and it’s only as an admittedly somewhat childish thirty five year-old, that I can start to appreciate this gem of children’s fiction. ![]() Okay, let’s address the elephant in the room, yes there is a movie. It might also kick off an inter-species war. When his father, Artemis Fowl the first, made some very good investments that lead to some very bad attention from the Russian mob, Young Artemis is left in charge of a much diminished criminal empire, but the discovery of an underground society of fairies presents young Artemis with an opportunity to restore his family to billionaire status. Artemis Fowl is many things, a Genius, a very rich man, a criminal mastermind, and oh right, twelve. ![]()
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