Black & White Publishing is an independent publishing house based in the Leith area of Edinburgh, Scotland. Since 1999, the company has produced a range of titles, with more than 350 in print, including over 50 in the award-winning Itchy Coo imprint,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] and their new imprint for young adult fiction, Ink Road. Books published include biography, sport, humour, general non-fiction, fiction, young adult fiction and children's books.[8][9][10]
| Founded | 1999 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Campbell Brown and Alison McBride |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | Edinburgh |
| Distribution | Grantham Book Services |
| Publication types | Books |
| Imprints | Ink Road, Itchy Coo |
| Official website | blackandwhitepublishing |
History edit
Set up in 2002 with initial funding from the Scottish Arts Council, the Itchy Coo imprint began as a partnership between the publisher and a group of three writers (Matthew Fitt, James Robertson and Susan Rennie).[11][12][13][14] Itchy Coo publishes books in Scots for children and is the primary provider of educational material in the language,[15][16][17][7][18][19][20][21][22] a Scottish Arts Council report stating that "There has never before been such a significant and concentrated input of Scots language materials into schools".[23] Creative Scotland awarded funding for several titles.[24] Until 2011 Itchy Coo ran an education and outreach programme, delivering 500 in-service training sessions to teachers and visiting 1000 schools.[23] A Scottish Government ministerial working group report stated in 2010 that "The Itchy Coo project has been the main driver of change for Scots since 2002 and has brought about a huge shift in attitudes towards the language in education".[19]: 26 Itchy Coo publish translations into Scots of such authors as Raymond Briggs, Roald Dahl,[25] Julia Donaldson, Jean-Yves Ferri (Asterix), Jeff Kinney, A. A. Milne, J. K. Rowling, Alexander McCall Smith, Robert Louis Stevenson and David Walliams.[4][26] Dahl's The Eejits and Geordie's Mingin Medicine attained number one bestseller in Scotland.[19][27]
Black & White Publishing has sponsored the Scots Schuil o the Year category since the inception of the Scots Language Awards in 2019.[28][29] They themselves won in the 2019 Scots Business o the Year category and Scots Bairn's Book o the Year was awarded to an Itchy Coo title in 2019 and 2020.[28][29][30][31][32] One of the first Itchy Coo titles, Animal ABC, was awarded the Saltire Society/Times Education Scotland Prize in 2002,[33] and Black & White received a commendation in the 2015 Saltire Society Publisher of the Year Award.[34]
Authors edit
Authors published by Black & White include[35]:
References edit
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- ^ "Get ready to read The Diary o a Wimpy Wean". 1 October 2018. Archived from the original on 29 November 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
- ^ Crampsey, Colette (29 September 2018). "Diary of a Wimpy Kid gets bairn again with first ever Scots translation". Daily Record. Archived from the original on 13 February 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
- ^ a b "Diary of a Wimpy Kid to be translated into Scots". www.scotsman.com. Archived from the original on 10 February 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
- ^ "Internet stars Olive and Mabel help Sense Scotland". 4 September 2020. Archived from the original on 19 January 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
- ^ "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stane: JK Rowling's book is translated into Scots for first time". HeraldScotland. Archived from the original on 13 February 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
- ^ a b "Itchy Coo". Scots language Centre. Archived from the original on 10 February 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
- ^ "Future's bright for Mabel, Olive and lockdown's other unlikely stars". the Guardian. 27 June 2020. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
- ^ Carlyle, Rachel. "Olive and Mabel: the labradors that broke the internet". Archived from the original on 2 February 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2021 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
- ^ Lindsay, Caroline. "Relive the childhood magic with Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales in Scots". Archived from the original on 31 January 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
- ^ "Whit is Itchy Coo?". 14 October 2002. Archived from the original on 14 October 2002.
- ^ "Mindin' the Mother Tongue". The Scotsman. 17 August 2002. Archived from the original on 4 December 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- ^ "Scots language for schools". Contact Magazine. October 2002. Archived from the original on 3 March 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- ^ "Happy Birthday, Swatch!". August 2020. Archived from the original on 1 March 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- ^ "4 top tips for using Scots language in the classroom". Tes. Archived from the original on 14 February 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
- ^ "ITCHY COO - Scots Language Education". www.scotseducation.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2 July 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
- ^ "Announcing the winner: Outstanding Contribution to Children's Books 2020". Scottish Book Trust. Archived from the original on 13 February 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
- ^ "Connect to Scots Language through The Language of Langholm" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 March 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ^ a b c Scots language: Ministerial Working Group report. www.gov.scot (Report). Scottish Government. 30 November 2010. Archived from the original on 22 November 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- ^ "Why children's books are still a success story". HeraldScotland. Archived from the original on 23 March 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ^ "The Scots language in education in Scotland - 2nd edition" (PDF). Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning. 2017. ISSN 1570-1239. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 January 2022.
- ^ Nordicity, in association with Drew Wylie (June 2015). "Literature and Publishing Sector Review" (PDF). Creative Scotland. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 February 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ^ a b "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Scots Language Publication Grant Awards Funding for nine new titles". www.creativescotland.com. Archived from the original on 19 February 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ^ Miller, Phil (21 May 2019). "Matilda, Dahl's classic tale, to be published in Scots". The Herald. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ^ "Cover Stories: Dwain Chambers' autobiography; Itchy Coo; Amazon;". The Independent. 23 October 2011. Archived from the original on 1 March 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
- ^ "Bringing Scots Back To Schools". 27 October 2020. Archived from the original on 26 February 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ^ a b Hannan, Martin (26 October 2020). "Janey Godley and Stuart Paterson muckle winners o' Scots awards". The National (in Scots). NewsQuest. NewsQuest Media Group Ltd. Archived from the original on 31 October 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ a b "Winners annoonced for the Scots Language Awards 2020". www.creativescotland.com. Archived from the original on 17 February 2021. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
- ^ "Winners of first ever Scots language 'Oscars' revealed". Publishing Scotland. 30 September 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2020.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Scots Language Awards stars win the night at Glasgow's Mitchell Theatre". Scots Language Awards. 28 September 2019. Archived from the original on 17 November 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ^ "Successes at inaugural Scots Language Awards". 30 September 2019. Archived from the original on 31 October 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ^ "Award for Animal ABC". Contact Magazine. March 2003. Archived from the original on 23 March 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- ^ "2015". www.saltiresociety.org.uk. Archived from the original on 25 January 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ^ "Authors" Archived 24 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine, Black & White Publishing.
- ^ "Black & White signs up Donna Ashworth for five more books". The Bookseller. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ Erskine, Rosalind. "Scotland's National Chef Gary Maclean to release Scottish Kitchen cookbook". The Scotsman Food & Drink. The Scotsman. Retrieved 14 May 2022.
- ^ Maskame, Estelle (25 June 2015). "Estelle Maskame: how social media made me a publishing sensation". the Guardian. Archived from the original on 30 November 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2022.