Six Just So Stories (Literature Disguised as Fun)

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9798862896695
Grade K-6
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Charlotte Mason
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  • Introduce your students to great literature in an easy-to-read, fun format
  • Full, unabridged, annotated text of Six Just So Stories
  • Discover art from the original publications (with speech bubbles), geography maps, trivia, discussion questions, vocab words, and more
  • A section at the end has images with blank text bubbles that students can fill in
Description

Introduce your students to great literature with an easy-to-read annotated format that prompts laughs as well as learning. As your student reads the unabridged text of Six Just So Stories, they will encounter original illustrations with added speech bubbles, vocabulary words, fun geography maps, discussion questions, trivia questions, and even images where students can add their own speech bubbles. The book ends with a creative biography about the author.

Publisher's Description of Six Just So Stories (Literature Disguised as Fun)

This annotated edition of Six Just So Stories includes:

  • The unabridged text of six Rudyard Kipling stories
  • Original illustrations with added talk bubbles
  • Vocabulary words with Sniffy the Hamster
  • A creative biography about Kipling: “How Rudyard Got His Words”
  • Fun geography maps showing real places mentioned in the stories
  • Discussion questions
  • Fun trivia questions
  • Images where students can add their own talk bubbles


Rudyard Kipling won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. This edition of Six Just So Stories includes the first six stories from his book.

In addition to the unabridged stories there is a lot of original art from earlier editions amended with talk bubbles, vocabulary with Sniffy the Hamster, geography for the real places referred to in the stories, trivia and discussion questions and “How Rudyard Got His Words,” a short biographical piece about Kipling.

And if that wasn’t enough, there are blank talk bubbles on the art at the end of the book for students to get creative with on their own .

The Literature Disguised as Fun series introduces your students to great literature and gives them some fun along the way.

“Though I do like being on the cover of these stories by Kipling, I do not appreciate the joke about my horn. I will deal with Mr. Draeger at a later time. He has no manners.” — The Rhinoceros

This is Literature Disguised as Fun.

Category Description for Study Guides & Books

Please note that a brief synopsis of many of the books included here are provided in our Library Builders section. Study guides for the same book are often available from several publishers, so we found it more efficient to give a description of the book only once.


These are contained (include the story), inexpensive, and non-consumable literary components you can weave into your language arts for middle and high school ages. Each one can be done by a student and parent, small group or a classroom. The content is not religious unless the author mentions it as a talking point (even then, they are not biblical in nature.) It's the questions after the story that really tripped my trigger! Why do you think so-and-so responded the way he did? Why was that good or bad? What might you have done in that situation? I'm generalizing to show the higher-order thinking structure of the questions. A short biography of the author and some background to the setting introduces the mood to come. Read the story, then comes the discussion questions. You could easily make a question into an essay topic! The voice of the guides themselves is very friendly and conversational. It makes for a relaxed vibe going into some pretty dark and heavy literature. The prices vary with the length of the reading, but they all have the same pre- and post-story content. A few scattered illustrations poke fun at the topics. At the end, I quite liked reading some quotes from the author and suggestions for further reading. These feel like something you could work into a busy week when you may not get to your heavier work. Or maybe you find yourself picking one up between larger novels to discuss. The titles are some that you may not know, so have a try at something new! I would get the whole set if it were me. ~Sara

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Product Format:Paperback
Brand:ArtK12
Grades:K-6
ISBN:9798862896695
Length in Inches:9
Width in Inches:6
Height in Inches:0.1875
Weight in Pounds:0.35
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