Paul Bunyan

"Paul Bunyan" is about an extraordinarily large trouble making baby who grows into a giant. He has a friendly blue ox as a companion as he digs the great lakes, gouges the Grand Canyon, creates a river, and saves his men from the terrible Gumberoos as he travels across the country. After he cross the country it is believed that he heads north. When he reaches Alaska, he and Babe settle down, where they still live today.

Steven Kellogg's retelling of "Paul Bunyan" is a very basic form of this talltale. It is less wordy and has large illustrations that take up full pages. Different types of folktales are part of the fifth grade cirriculum in the NC SCOS but this particular version is on a much lower grade level, so I would use this version for unique learners such as ELL or behind grade level students that are in the fifth grade.