Cummins, Julie. Review. School Library Journal 32 (April 1986): 98. Cummins summarizes The Catalogue of the Universe and comments favorably on its vividness and uniqueness.

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

3d edition. Edited by Tracy Chevalier. Chicago: St. James Press, 1989.

Heins provides background information and a succinct but insightful commentary on Mahy's skill as a storyteller, her sense of humor, and her blending of fantasy and realism.

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

The ALAN Review 17 (Winter 1990): 33. Lehman discusses 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 discusses her life and her career.

"Margaret Mahy." In Authors and Artists for Young Adults. Volume 8. Edited by Laurie Collier. Detroit: Gale Research, 1992. Provides biographical information and an...