A Smurf in the Air

Smurf Mini Storybooks

by Peyo, Yvan Delporte

Handy Smurf tries every way he can think of to fly in the air like a bird.

Genres: Childrens

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

Pierre Culliford, known as Peyo, was a Belgian comics artist, perhaps best known for the creation of The Smurfs comic strip.

Reviews

[Mu Thomart Nimal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fabulous

[Christina · Rating 2 out of 5]

So I smurfed this book on eBay. Actually, not just this one, someone was selling all eight books in the series in one lot! My lucky day (or not, depending on how you look at it.)
I have fond memories of smurfing The Smurfs after school as a kid, usually while waiting for our Sinclair computer to load a game from tape cassette. Yes, before floppy disks and the Apple IIe, we used a tape cassette player hooked up to our British import computer to load games, sounding like that dial up sound from AOL for 30 minutes. My favorite game was “New Wheels John,” in which I could play the part of a British used car dealer, selling Renaults and Peugeots to punters for a profit. I may have been an odd child, now that I think of it.... but I digress.
Smurf in the Air follows Handy Smurf as he makes various attempts to fly. None are successful, most end in painfully cartoonish disaster. (Spoiler Alert) He does eventually succeed only to conclude smurfs weren’t meant to fly. It’s an okay book, several other smurfs make appearances, the art is spot on, but nothing especially notable about it as a book apart from its smurfiness. And to think, I have seven more just like it to read!