The Bunyan's by Audrey Wood

This story begins with an author’s note explaining the background behind the story of Paul Bunyan. Audrey continues by saying that this is the true story and that Paul was married with two children. Carrie, his wife, and he were both giants decided to get married and share Paul’s wishbone after Carrie had lost hers. This story is great for learning American geography because of the analogies using American landscape. It also gives a unrealistic way of how certain landscapes came to be, but could spark interest in children for how they really did come to be! This is one book not illustrated by Don Wood, but instead by David Shannon. His illustrations work well with the story Audrey has written. Many of the images show how large the characters are by showing them in relation to wagons and houses that are very small. One illustration also shows bears crawling in “Teeny's” hair after a silo of syrup has spilled in it preceding an illustration of her showering in Niagara Falls!