Founded | 1999 |
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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 |
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]
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 published by Black & White include: [35]
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Founded | 1999 |
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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 |
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]
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 published by Black & White include: [35]
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