Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

No Tooth, No Quarter by (1989) by Jon Buller
and Susan Schade is about a tooth fairy.
At last they came to Tooth Fairy Land.
"It's an underground world!" Walter gasped.
"Isn't it beautiful?" asked the tooth fairy.
As can be seen, the underground Tooth Fairy
Land contains a river.
Chapter 18 -- Picture Books
In the legend Persephone (1994) told by Warwick
Hutton, having eaten six pomegranate seeds in Hades's
cavernous domain where only a sinuous underground
river and a few forlorn pomegranate trees relieve the
austerity, the earth goddess Persephone is consigned to
spend half of each year there, during which months the
earth darkens.
A lone shaft of light penetrates a deep, gray chasm.
From The Rodeo (2007) by David W. Canterbury,
Cowboy Bob took a deep breath and walked toward the
stranger. As Cowboy Bob grew close, he yelled, "Hey
there!"
The stranger was startled and jumped back and then fell
right into the hole. Cowboy Bob ran over and
discovered the hole was actually the opening to the
cave of the underground river.
Cowboy Bob looked into the cave and could only see
and hear the rushing water of the underground river.
Suddenly there was a yell. "Help!"
The Dangerous Alphabet (2008) by Neil Gaiman contains rhyming couplets, each an alliterative
and ominous interpretations of what each letter stands for. The tale is a disturbing adventure with
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