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For more than 150 years, loggers have told tall tales about Paul Bunyan—a giant who helped shape the American frontier.
Find the two fallen trees that match.
If what they say is true, Paul Bunyan was born in Maine. And he must have been a pretty husky baby, too. When he was only three weeks old, he rolled around in his sleep and knocked down four square miles of standing timber! Standards Link: Literary Analysis: Students comprehend basic plots of folk tales.
Standards Link: Visual discrimination.
Paul became a logger. With one swing of
It was so cold one winter that all of the snow turned blue. Cows even gave blue milk! Paul found a baby ox shivering under a blue snowdrift. He adopted the ox and named him Babe. Babe and Paul both grew and grew, but the ox always remained the color of the blue snow.
his giant axe, he could slice through dozens of trees. Settlers followed
Paul and set up farms and towns in the cleared land. Some say the entire Midwest was once covered with trees until Paul cleared it all!
Draw the other half of Babe. Then color him blue. Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.
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