Pat Durham loves Christmas, and Advent has always been a magical season for her. Nyger's Advent Journey is her response to the realization that many children, and adults, don't understand the difference between Christmas and Advent.

Her inspirational and entertaining devotional book provides daily, fifteen-minute story lessons, from Thanksgiving Day through Christmas Eve. It follows the adventures taking place in and around a little, white, clapboard country church on the hill.

Nyger, a brown field rat with a baldhead (the result of a grass fire) and round cheeks,...

A devotional story for the whole family, Nyger's Lenten Journey teaches the most important lessons about the life and death of Jesus in a simple and direct manner.

Offering traditions and activities to share with loved ones during the forty days of Lent, Pat Durham's family-oriented devotional takes you on a journey with a square-faced field rat named Nyger and his friends-human, animal, and divine.

As the animals take shelter in a hilltop church, they learn about the sacrifice that Jesus Christ made for all of us and the hope he gave to the world when he rose from the...