Smurphony in C

Smurf Mini Storybooks

by Peyo

When a magic spell is put on Harmony's trumpet, his music puts all the Smurfs to sleep

Paperback

First published October 1, 1978

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

[Christina · Rating 4 out of 5]

It seems these smurf books really need Gargamel to create exciting plots. In this one, when Harmony Smurf is banished from the orchestra for smurfing his trumpet off-key, he goes off to the forest to play. There, he encounters Gargamel in drag—disguised as a fairy godmother who gives him a magic trumpet. Not only does he follow Harmony to find Smurf Village, the magic trumpet puts all the smurfs to sleep! Of course, being a fool, rather than gather up all the sleeping smurfs, Gargamel chases Harmony, the one smurf still awake, through the woods. There is a macabre scene when Harmony returns, with all the smurfs laid out as if dead. But surprisingly, he finds a cure and the smurfs live to smurf another day.

And with this review, I have finally smurfed the word smurf enough that my autocorrect has learned it, and is no longer changing it to smirk, snarf, or smur fed.