His exploits revolve around the tall tales of his superhuman labors, and he is customarily accompanied by Babe the Blue Ox….

1) First, choose a tall tale hero. 2) Second, describe your hero. Be sure to exaggerate your hero’s characteristics. Make him or her bigger or stronger or faster or smarter than anyone else!

Tall tale, narrative that depicts the wild adventures of extravagantly exaggerated folk heroes. The tall tale is essentially an oral form of entertainment; the audience appreciates the imaginative invention rather than the literal meaning of the tales.

Paul Bunyan was a hero of North America’s lumberjacks, the workers who cut down trees. He was known for his strength, speed and skill. Tradition says he cleared forests from the northeastern United States to the Pacific Ocean.

“Paul Bunyan” is the signature song used in the 1958 Disney short of the same name. The music was provided by George Bruns, with lyrics by Tom Adair, and vocals by The Mellomen.

Paul Bunyan is not a Kaiju. According to legends he was just a really big strong man.

Tall Tales

• American Tall Tales.
• Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales from Vietnam.
• Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend and Tall Tale.
• Davy Crockett Saves the World.
• John Henry.
• Kumak’s Fish: A Tall Tale from the Far North.
• Master Man: A Tall Tale of Nigeria.
• Mountain Men: True Grit and Tall Tales.

Paul Bunyan, giant lumberjack, mythical hero of the lumber camps in the United States, a symbol of bigness, strength, and vitality. The tales describe how Paul, who fashions lakes and rivers at will, created Puget Sound, the Grand Canyon, and the Black Hills. They celebrate the lumbermen’s prodigious appetites.

Here are five common traits of tall tales:

• Tall tales combine fact and fiction. Tall tales include some basis in facts (such as actual places, people, and events).
• Hyperbole rules.
• Life is tough.
• Heroes are brave, buff, and brainy.
• Heroes are also hardworking and never give up.