Simplify the following text for a Grade 3 native English-speaking person.
Original: Babe the Blue Ox , Bunyan 's companion , was a massive creature with exceptional strength . Most imagery of Bunyan shows Babe the Blue Ox as being of proportionate size ( meaning massive compared to everything else ) .
Simplified: Babe the Blue Ox , Bunyan 's friend , was a large and very strong animal .