Paul Bunyun

Author/Illustrator: Steven Kellogg 

Genre: Traditional Literature

Grade level: K-3

Paul was born in Maine but his family moved West. He saves an ox from a blizzard and decides to call him Babe. They travel across the United States and is credited to making a lot of the different landforms in the U.S such as digging the St. Lawrence River, the Great Lakes, and gauging up the Grand Canyon. The story says that he is probably still wandering around the Alaskan wilderness to this day. 

This book is a good book to introduce during a geography unit to have a fun way to say how those things came to be. Then we would learn about how they actually came to be in the unit. It can also be used as a guided reading book. 

The illustrations are very detailed. They are colorful but lightly colored with what seems to be colored pencils. The illustrations are very humorous and add a lot of humor to the story. It helps children know that these things are not actually real or fact.