Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

Chapter 23 -- Girls, Too!
In Henrietta's House (1942) by Elizabeth Goudge, Henrietta and
her brother Hugh John go for a picnic where they encounter a
sinister gatekeeper and an elderly gentleman who builds bowers
in the forest for imagined Sleeping Beauties and a mysterious
house fitted up just as Henrietta had dreamed. Hugh John finds
an underground river and a boat and thus discovers a robbers'
den.
Given the helter-skelter plot, the reviews were surprisingly highbrow
and positive, but as an underground river saga, it's probably
not a keeper.
In The Mystery of Mont Saint-Michel (1955) by Michel Rouze,
four French boys and one girl decide to explore the famous Mont
Saint-Michel Abby, but are soon lost in a network of passages
and caves. They avoid the rising water, provide themselves with
light, fire and food and investigate in the legend that here once
grew the great Forest of Cokelunde. Not an underground river,
exactly, but underground tides.
In Hester and the Gnomes by Marigold Hunt (1955), when
Hester's father drilled a well on his farm, he pierced the roof of the
gnomes' underground river and the little fellows decided to journey
to the upper world to set things straight.
In The Cave of Cornelius (1959), retitled The End of the Tunnel (1969) by Paul Capon, four
children searching for lost Roman treasure stumble into a secret world beneath the earth which is
inhabited by descendants of the very Romans whose treasure they have been seeking. These
people, with their debased Latin and partly-archaic, partly-modern appurtenances, guard their
secret and their habitat rigorously. Fortunately the children make contact with a contemporary
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