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Paul Bunyan, Part 1

Paul Bunyan is probably the most famous of all American tall tale heroes. When Americans settled the thirteen colonies, and then moved west from those colonies, one of their biggest jobs was clearing the thick forests so they could build houses and plant field crops. Perhaps it was because clearing these endless forests was so much work, that people invented a hero who was as big as the forests they had to clear. That hero was Paul Bunyan.

There are many different stories about Paul Bunyan, and there are a few that have become favorites. Some of these stories are listed below, and you will add some of your own bigger-than-life, imaginative details. You can read Steven Kellogg's book Paul Bunyan for more stories about him.

Read the passages below and add your ideas between the angle brackets.

Some Famous "Facts" about Paul Bunyan

When Paul Bunyan was born, he weighed <  > pounds. The very first meal he ate started with <  >, <  >, <  >, <  > and <  >. Then he ate <  >, <  > and <  >. Finally, for dessert, he ate <  >, <  > and <  >. Half an hour later, he ate <  > and <  > for a snack.

When Paul Bunyan was a few weeks old, he was so large that <  >. Since no one could rock such a big baby, his father built a huge cradle and anchored it in a harbor so the waves would lull Paul to sleep.

One morning, Paul started jumping up and down in the cradle. This caused a tidal wave. The waves rolling from Paul's cradle got bigger and bigger until <  >. As the tidal wave crashed against the shore <  >. As the tidal wave rolled out to sea <  >.

For Paul's seventh birthday, the townspeople gave him an ax. Since Paul was already as tall as <  >, the ax was as large as <  > and as sharp as <  >. Paul was so delighted, he ran to the nearest forest and chopped down <  > trees.

When Paul was eight years old, he was so big that his shirt buttons were made of wagon wheels. He made a pencil out of a pine tree so that he could learn to write. In one day, he wrote a story that had <  > words and <  > pages in it.

When Paul was a man, he was so strong that he could <  >. He was so fast that he could <  >.

One day when Paul was tired, he dragged his ax behind him as he walked home to the next state. It was that dragging ax that made the Grand Canyon.

Babe, the blue ox, was Paul's pet. She was so big, that once a crow decided to fly from the tip of one horn to the tip of the other. She began the flight as a young bird and was an old bird by the time she arrived at the tip of that other horn.

When Babe was hungry, which was almost all the time, she ate <  >.


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You can print your tall tale now and refer to it as you work on the second Tall Tale activity that talks about Paul Bunyan.

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