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The Corn Grows Ripe, written by Dorothy Rhoads and illustrated by Jean Charlot, is a 1956 picture book published by PUFFIN NEWBERY LIBRARY. The Corn Grows Ripe was a Newbery Medal Honor Book for 1957

Characters
Tigre (Main character) Great Grandmother Father Mother

Description
The story, written by Dorothy Rhoads. at first is told from the Mayan Perspective in past tense in (a third person narrative) and continues throughout the whole book, with nonsense words and misspellings and a little slang and also Spanish words as to indicate how the families are Mayans who were created by the gods. The book also has repeated words "Tee-gree, tee-gree, tee-gree" The illustrations on this book show what the characters are doing to give a better explanation instead of having to picture it in your head.

Plot
The Corn Grows Ripe. The story starts explaining the story of the Mayans but as part-time fictional version meaning that not everything here is completely true because this book has fictional characters and natures that talk as the Mayan gods tried to create humans out of woods but when it rained they stiffened because the wood became rusty so they became rusty, then the creator destroyed all the wooden humans he created and did them from mud before but they dissolved when it rained. So then he tried again when he reunited all the Mayan gods to give each other ideas and finally it came down to create humans out of corn. (The cover art shows Tigre growing the corn, the farmer's look to make it more understandable and the clouds). The story starts off with Dionisio "Tigre", the nickname comes from his family because he is described as lazy and curious about things just like a Jaguar , but also because he looks like a one. Tigre heads into the woods after a tree falls on his father's thigh when he was cutting down the trees. The accident happened because he disrespected the Bush gods on the forest so now is up to Tigre to go to a village to find a "Bonesetter" who is also a medicine man to help his father out. As shown on the image of page 33 on this book, the illustration shows Tigre and his clean clothes, his pouch of water and sack full of honey as a greeting for the medicine man. There is also two holy crosses in the background that guard the entrance of his village but as he passes beyond the crosses is like he passes beyond his own Santos's protection. When he gets to the village he goes asking for the medicine man who he brings back home to help his father out. Tigre has to continue his education and also do his father's work, he has to prove he's a man now and get food for the the family. Every morning he wakes up more tired but he refuses to give up as his father refused too. So he works all summer planting beans and corn to provide for his family, now all they have to do is wait for the rain which has been impossible because it haven't rained all summer so the family prays and pray and do so many sacrifices to please the gods, On the third day it finally rains and the village rejoice with happiness. When Tigre and the family walk out, his father is impressed because is his first time seeing the harvesting the beans and squash have grew and the corn grew ripe after all.

Critical Reception
Some Reviewers have described it as "Realistic portrayal of the life of many Indian families in mexico today" -Isabel Schon .