Egoff, Sheila A. "Canadian Literary Rarity Draws Readers." Review of What If?, edited by Monica Hughes. Quill & Quire (October 1998): 44-45. This is a positive review of the anthology, praising Hughes's selection of a variety of speculative fiction stories that surprise the reader.

Ellis, Sarah. "News from the North." The Horn Book (October 1984): 661. This is an analysis of Hughes's merit as an author of imaginative writing for young people.

"Isis Pedlar." Resource Links, vol. 2 (August 1997): 246. The reviewer offers positive statements about the peerless writer Monica Hughes (in the genre of Canadian science fiction for children) and her Isis trilogy.

"Isis Trilogy: The Keeper of the Isis Light."

Resource Links (October 2000): 24-25. A positive review on re-reading the trilogy twenty years later, though much more complimentary of the first book than the second or especially the third. "The book's themes of discrimination and exploration of human...