[1] Stokke combined working as a teacher with part-time studies at the University of Oslo.
While studying he worked as a deputy teacher at various primary schools, and also at the institution Toftes Gave.
His textbook Folket vårt gjennom tidene from 1940 was the most widely used history book in Norwegian primary school in the 1940s.
He wrote a total of twelve children's books, the first was Blandt olme okser from 1931.
Later books are Bjørneklo and De hjemløse ryttere, both from 1938, Dag fra skogene from 1941, Geir den fredlause from 1944, Nils og Fredrik from 1946 and Langs farefulle veier from 1972.