The Kite-Eating Tree is a non-human character in the Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz. As the name suggests, it is a large tree that eats kites. It first appeared in the strip on April 12, 1956. The Kite-Eating Tree is often depicted with large teeth and grins when Charlie Brown approaches with a kite.

History Edit

Charlie Brown constantly loses kites to the tree. He appears to be the only child who flies kites anywhere near it, therefore, as Charlie Brown once noted, without him the tree would "starve to death." To take revenge on the tree, Charlie Brown once took a bite out of it. The tree later blew down in a storm. However, even after that the tree kept appearing, so there is probably more than one Kite-Eating Tree.

In one strip Lucy van Pelt throws Schroeder's piano into the tree, which it eats. Therefore, the two things that the tree is known to eat are kites and pianos.

The Kite-Eating tree is seen in the early parts of the movie A Boy Named Charlie Brown, and is briefly seen in the game, "It's the Big Game, Charlie Brown". It was featured as a ride at the former Camp Snoopy theme park in Bloomington, Minnesota.

External linksEdit

• The first appearance of the Kite-Eating Tree in the Peanuts comic strip from April 12, 1956.