A Curious Christmas

About the Book

A Curious Christmas is the story of the great adventure of an elf named Ginger. On Christmas Eve, this small elf allows curiosity to get the best of him, and he hides on Santa’s sleigh. What will Santa do if he finds an extra “present” in his sleigh?

About the Author

A Curious Christmas was written as a fun project that Erica Elemes and Rebecca Koerner came together on as a great example of project based learning. Mrs. Elemes teaches art at St. Joseph’s School in Moorhead to grades K–8. She has worked there for two years, teaching and inspiring creativity to all her students. Her student, Rebecca, is in eight grade at St. Joseph’s and has been there for ten years, learning and growing in her art. She spends lots of her time outside of school drawing whenever she can and has been doing lots of fun drawing assignments with Mrs. Elemes. The book started as just an idea of Mrs. Elemes as a fun idea for a second-grade art project. From there, the idea blossomed. Mrs. Elemes was originally going to also be the illustrator, but Rebecca was suggested by another teacher at St. Joe’s, Mrs. Jeanne Lindquist. After Mrs. Elemes was done writing the story, Rebecca worked long and hard on every drawing. She brainstormed ideas with Mrs. Elemes about what she was picturing for them, and throughout many months they worked on it, Rebecca would always check with Mrs. Elemes on her point of view. Starting off with traditional work, she ended up transferring all of them digitally to reline and recolor every picture. The illustrations were made with love and hard work and make the book an amazing experience for everyone who reads it.