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Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

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Chapter 18 -- Picture Books<br />

We've barely dipped into the pool <strong>of</strong> picture books incorporating underground rivers into the<br />

settings -- the bibliographic tools to search by illustration just aren't there -- but we've established<br />

that such dark waters are regularly employed.<br />

Literary criticism <strong>of</strong> adult fiction (e.g., works cited in the previous two chapters) is rife with<br />

interpretations <strong>of</strong> such settings, some <strong>of</strong> which we've mentioned and others woven into chapters<br />

ahead, Chapter 37, Achluohydrophobia.<br />

We need not opine to great degree about underground rivers in children's picture books,<br />

however. Kids understand without our interpretation. If they didn't grab the essence <strong>of</strong> such<br />

settings, they'd not ask us to read them the books time and time again. Those <strong>of</strong> us prone toward<br />

analysis <strong>of</strong> such matters, however, can await Chapter 90, Why Do We Believe What We Believe,<br />

our journey's ultimate disembarkation.<br />

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