LeVar joins Smokey Bear for a trip to Maine, the legendary birthplace of Paul Bunyan, where he goes to forest firefighter training. A visit to a reforestation area shows how little seeds become big trees and LeVar learns how planting and caring for trees is important to all of us.

Review books

Feature Book:

Paul Bunyan

This book recounts the life of the extraordinary lumberjack whose unusual size and strength brought him many fantastic adventures.

Retold by: Steven Kellogg
Illustrator: Steven Kellogg
Publisher: Morrow

The Legend of the Bluebonnet

A retelling of the Comanche Indian legend of how a little girl's sacrifice brought the flower called bluebonnet to Texas.

Retold by: Tomie dePaola
Illustrator: Tomie dePaola
Publisher: Putnam

Whale in the Sky

Describes the Northwest Indian totem pole, which shows how Thunderbird, who watches over all creatures, punished Whale for chasing salmon and scaring Frog.

Author: Anne Siberell
Illustrator: Anne Siberell
Publisher: Penguin

The Star-Spangled Banner

Realistic illustrations accompany the words to the national anthem. Provides the anthem's actual music with guitar chords, historical notes and maps about the War of 1812, and information about how "The Star-Spangled Banner" came to be written by Francis Scott Key. Also includes a reproduction of Key's original manuscript.

Illustrator: Peter Spier
Publisher: Doubleday