About Shelagh Armstrong Shelagh Armstrong is a freelance commercial artist who has designed adult book covers, stamps and commemorative coins .If the World Were a Village was her first children's book. She lives in Toronto, Ontario. Books by Shelagh Armstrong If the World Were a Village - Second Edition A Book about the World's People by (author) David J. Smith illustrated by Shelagh Armstrong This Child, Every Child A Book about the World’s Children by (author) David J. Smith illustrated by Shelagh Armstrong If America Were a Village A Book about the People of the United States by (author) David J. Smith illustrated by Shelagh Armstrong If the World Were a Village A Book about the World’s People by (author) David J. Smith illustrated by Shelagh Armstrong