Biography
Shelagh Armstrong graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts in studio arts and art history before studying Communication and Design at the Ontario College of Art & Design. She grew up with an awareness of the fine arts through her mother’s love of the fine and editorial (Victorian) arts.#Professionally illustrating for over twenty years, Shelagh’s career has spanned across a variety of industries including retail advertising; courtroom sketching for television; package illustrating for private and public companies; and commemorative coin designing for the Royal Canadian Mint, including commemorative coins for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.#Her acclaimed design work and revered illustrations allowed her to reenter the editorial world when she was asked to illustrate If the World Were a Village for Kids Can Press, winner of the International Reading Association’s Children’s Book Award. Following the success of her first children’s book, Shelagh also illustrated If America Were a Village .
Awards
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This Child, Every Child
2012 - Best Books for Kids & Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Winner
2012 - Outstanding International Book, USBBY, Winner
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If America Were a Village
2010 - Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, NCSS-CBC, Winner
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If the World Were a Village
2012 - Best Books for Kids & Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Winner
2004 - Alberta Children’s Choice Rocky Mountain Book Award, Association of Booksellers for Children, Commended
2003 - ABC Choices Award, International Reading Association, Winner
2003 - Children’s Book Award, International Reading Association, Winner
2003 - Children’s Choices List, Canadian Children’s Book Centre, Winner
2003 - Independent Publisher Book Award, , Winner
2003 - Nautilus Award, , Winner
2003 - Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, , Winner
2003 - Our Choice - Starred Selection, , Winner
2003 - Parent's Guide Choice Award, , Winner
2002 - NAPPA - Children’s Resources Gold Award, , Winner
Non-fiction
This Child, Every Child, 2011
If the World Were a Village, 2011
If America Were a Village, 2009