Journey with Story - A Storytelling Podcast for Kids
Jul 30, 2026 · 42 min · 11 segments
Enjoy all of this month's episodes in our bonus playlist: E 362 - Paul Bunyon and the Cornstalk E 363 - The Wisest Man in Siam E 364 - The Toothpick Warriors E 365 - the Great Music Contest A…
He was seven feet tall and six feet wide, and was the only woodsman who could stand between two trees with a double-edged axe and chop them both down at once.
However, this nearly caused a disaster when he planted corn and pumpkins in his vegetable patch.
Before the others had even sprouted, it was as tall as a man, and in two weeks it was as big as a house.
In three weeks, that cornstalk towered like a pine tree, and people came from miles around to stare at the sight.
It grew so fast that it broke out of Paul Bunyan's vegetable patch and spread all over the town.
It snaked into barns and houses so that some people had to cut their way out of bed in the morning.
As they continued to grow, the roots of the cornstalk and the pumpkin sucked so much water out of the ground that they caused a drought.
Fields dried out, springs dried up, and rivers shrank until they were no more than a trickle.
Eventually, even the water in the lakes began to disappear, and fish were left hanging in the air.
Paul Bunyan's neighbors knocked on his big door and asked him to get rid of his corn and pumpkins.
[door knocking] "Well, I don't want to cause anybody trouble," said Paul Bunyan, and he agreed to chop down his cornstalk and pull up his vine.
He spent four hours chasing it all over the town and the farms until at last he managed to trap it in a barn.
[ox mooing] The ox ran off, but it was 100 miles away before it could tug that vine tight and pull it out of the ground.
The gigantic cornstalk had grown as thick as a redwood tree, and still it kept growing.
Paul swung his axe and made a deep cut- But before he could make a second cut to chip out a wedge, the cornstalk shot up another six feet.
He was seven feet tall and six feet wide, and was the only woodsman who could stand between two trees with a double-edged axe and chop them both down at once.
However, this nearly caused a disaster when he planted corn and pumpkins in his vegetable patch.
Before the others had even sprouted, it was as tall as a man, and in two weeks it was as big as a house.
In three weeks, that cornstalk towered like a pine tree, and people came from miles around to stare at the sight.
It grew so fast that it broke out of Paul Bunyan's vegetable patch and spread all over the town.
It snaked into barns and houses so that some people had to cut their way out of bed in the morning.
As they continued to grow, the roots of the cornstalk and the pumpkin sucked so much water out of the ground that they caused a drought.
Fields dried out, springs dried up, and rivers shrank until they were no more than a trickle.
Eventually, even the water in the lakes began to disappear, and fish were left hanging in the air.
Paul Bunyan's neighbors knocked on his big door and asked him to get rid of his corn and pumpkins.
[door knocking] "Well, I don't want to cause anybody trouble," said Paul Bunyan, and he agreed to chop down his cornstalk and pull up his vine.
He spent four hours chasing it all over the town and the farms until at last he managed to trap it in a barn.
[ox mooing] The ox ran off, but it was 100 miles away before it could tug that vine tight and pull it out of the ground.
The gigantic cornstalk had grown as thick as a redwood tree, and still it kept growing.
Paul swung his axe and made a deep cut- But before he could make a second cut to chip out a wedge, the cornstalk shot up another six feet.
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