Young Folks was a weekly children's literary

Children's literature

Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...

 magazine

Literary magazine

A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters...

 published in the United Kingdom

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 between 1871 and 1897. It is most notable for having first published a number of novels by Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde....

 in serial form, including Treasure Island

Treasure Island

Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book on May 23, 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881–82 under the title Treasure Island; or, the...

, Kidnapped

Kidnapped (novel)

Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Written as a "boys' novel" and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886, the novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis...

, and The Black Arrow.

Young Folks went under a number of different names in its 26-year history:

• Our Young Folks' Weekly Budget (1 January 1871 – 28 June 1879) (447 editions)
• Young Folks (5 July 1879 – 20 December 1884) (326 editions)
• Young Folks' Paper (27 December 1884 – 28 June 1891)
• Old and Young (4 July 1891 – 11 September 1896)
• Folks at Home (18 September 1896 – 29 April 1897)

The editor of the magazine was James Henderson. Young Folks serialised Treasure Island

Treasure Island

Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book on May 23, 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881–82 under the title Treasure Island; or, the...

in 1881–82 under the title Treasure Island; or, the mutiny of the Hispaniola and under the pseudonym

Pseudonym

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 Captain George North. The Black Arrow—published under the same pseudonym—was serialised between June and October 1883. Kidnapped

Kidnapped (novel)

Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Written as a "boys' novel" and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886, the novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis...

was serialised in the magazine from May to July 1886.