Edmond, Murray. "Interview with Margaret Mahy." Landfall 41 (June 1987): 164-185. In a lengthy interview, Mahy shares insights into her life and work.

Heins, Paul. "Margaret Mahy." In Twentieth-Century Children's Writers.

Edited by Tracy Chevalier. 3d ed.

Chicago: St. James Press, 1989: 626629. This article offers a brief but insightful survey of Mahy's major work.

Hollindale, Peter. Review. Times Educational Supplement (June 14, 1991): 26.

This review briefly summarizes and praises the novel.

Hower, Edward. Review. New York Times Book Review (June 23, 1991): 23.

Hower praises the novel for its "great psychological insight and imagination."

Lehman, Rebecca L. "Margaret Mahy: Mixing Family with the Unfamiliar."

ALAN Review 17 (Winter 1990): 33.

Lehman identifies the key motif of family in Mahy's work.

Mahy, Margaret. "A Dissolving Ghost: Possible Operations of Truth in Children's Books and the Lives of Children." Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, 2 (Summer 1989): 313-329.

Mahy, in a May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture, discusses her life...