Black & White Publishing

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. Black & White Publishing is the publisher of authors such as Daniela Sacerdoti, Ann O'Loughlin, Caroline Grace Cassidy, Estelle Maskame, SJI Holliday, Anthony O'Neill, Andrew Nicoll, Margaret Thomson Davis, Maureen Reynolds, Andrew Cotter, James Robertson, Matthew Fitt, Val McDermid, Elaine C. Smith and Jessie Kesson.[8][9][10][11][12]

Black & White Publishing
Founded1999
FounderCampbell Brown and Alison McBride
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Headquarters locationEdinburgh
DistributionGrantham Book Services
Publication typesBooks
Official websiteblackandwhitepublishing.com

The Itchy Coo imprint publishes books in Scots for children and is the primary provider of educational material in the language.[13][14][15][7] They also publish translations into Scots of such authors as Roald Dahl, Julia Donaldson, Jean-Yves Ferri (Asterix), Jeff Kinney, A. A. Milne, J. K. Rowling, Alexander McCall Smith and Robert Louis Stevenson.[4][16]

References
  1. "Matilda, Dahl's classic tale, to be published in Scots". HeraldScotland.
  2. "Get ready to read The Diary o a Wimpy Wean". 1 October 2018.
  3. Crampsey, Colette (29 September 2018). "Diary of a Wimpy Kid gets bairn again with first ever Scots translation". Daily Record.
  4. "Diary of a Wimpy Kid to be translated into Scots". www.scotsman.com.
  5. "Internet stars Olive and Mabel help Sense Scotland". 4 September 2020.
  6. "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stane: JK Rowling's book is translated into Scots for first time". HeraldScotland.
  7. "Itchy Coo". Scots language Centre.
  8. "Authors", Black & White Publishing.
  9. "Future's bright for Mabel, Olive and lockdown's other unlikely stars". the Guardian. 27 June 2020.
  10. Carlyle, Rachel. "Olive and Mabel: the labradors that broke the internet" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  11. Maskame, Estelle (25 June 2015). "Estelle Maskame: how social media made me a publishing sensation". the Guardian.
  12. Lindsay, Caroline. "Relive the childhood magic with Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales in Scots".
  13. "4 top tips for using Scots language in the classroom". Tes.
  14. "ITCHY COO - Scots Language Education". www.scotseducation.co.uk.
  15. "Announcing the winner: Outstanding Contribution to Children's Books 2020". Scottish Book Trust.
  16. "Cover Stories: Dwain Chambers' autobiography; Itchy Coo; Amazon;". The Independent. 23 October 2011.
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