Baby Smurf (original French title: Le Bébé Schtroumpf) is the 12th album of the original French-language Smurfs comic series created by Belgian artist Peyo. Apart from the titular story, it contains three more: The Handy Smurf, The Smurf Paint and A Smurfy Party. An English version that will be published by Papercutz is scheduled for release on February 19, 2013.
During a blue moon night, a stork leaves a Baby Smurf at the door of a Smurf house and leaves. The Smurfs quickly hand the baby to one another until he ends with the Smurfette. The next day, all the Smurfs converge to see the baby, save for Grouchy Smurf who hates baby Smurfs. Brainy Smurf asks if the baby is Smurfette's, which offends her. The baby is adopted by all Smurfs (save for the Grouchy one). Handy Smurf makes a bed for the baby, including a machine to swing it, but Papa Smurf opts for swinging the bed at hand.
Greedy Smurf cooks a cake for the baby, but Smurfette tells him the baby is too small for cakes. Other Smurfs wash the Baby's dirty clothes. When the Baby sees Grouchy passing, he tries to imitate his gruff expression, which seems to mellow Grouchy down, but he fakes apathy when Smurfette asks him to carry the baby. Brainy asks Papa Smurf where do the baby Smurfs come from, but Papa's answer is so complicated that he still doesn't understand anything.
At night, the baby crying doesn't let any Smurf sleep. The next day, the Smurfs prepare a party in Baby Smurf's honor, but the stork arrives with a note saying that the Baby was a "delivery error" and must be taken away. Everybody is upset, but they don't have any option but return the baby. However, they soon find that Grouchy Smurf has escaped with the baby. The Smurfs seek for Grouchy and the Baby throughout the forest. Grouchy manages to avert to be found, but then he decides to return to the village after noticing the many dangers the Baby would face in the forest.
After the Smurfs give the Baby back to the stork, life in the village turns sad; even Jokey Smurf and the Smurf getting his trademark explosive present try to laugh but end crying. That same night, the stork returns with the Baby, with a note saying that Grouchy Smurf's care for the baby has caused the baby to be allowed to stay with the Smurfs.
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