Stepping Stones: The Comic Collection Jenkins/Sabatino PAULINE Books & Media
Mar 27, 2016
Welcome to Stepping Stones!Denver, Chantal, Suki, and Alberto are on a journey—and you can join them! With these fun and inspiring comics, you’ll share the ups and downs, problems and joys, successes and failures of a great group of friends. The stepping stones of their lives are leading them on a path toward God.
Won’t you follow along? After all, you’re on that journey too!
Stepping Stones: The C
omic C
ollection
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About the Author…After more than twenty years as a special education teacher, Diana R. Jenkins became a freelance writer. She has written more than four hundred stories, comic strips, and articles for children and teens as well as three books of children’s plays. Her most recent book is Spotlight on Saints! A Year of Funny Readers Theater for Today’s Catholic Kids. Diana lives in Montgomery, Ohio, with her husband, a medical physicist.
About the Artist...Chris Sabatino grew up dreaming of illustrating comic books, and with Stepping Stones, his dream has come true! He illustrates children’s books, magazines, and greeting cards as well. Chris enjoys drawing all day in Canton, Massachusetts. He also enjoys his wife, Stephanie, his kids, Nicole and Joey, and his big cat named Zip!
$9.95 U.S.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jenkins, Diana R.Stepping stones : the comic collection / written by Diana R. Jenkins ; art by Chris
Sabatino.p. cm.
“Originally appeared in serial form in My friend: the Catholic magazine for kids from January 2002 through June 2007”--T.p. verso.
ISBN 0-8198-7118-4 (pbk.)1. Comic books, strips, etc. I. Sabatino, Chris. II. Title. PN6728.S745J46 2009741.5’973--dc22
2008025232
“Stepping Stones” originally appeared in serial form in My Friend: The Catholic Magazine for Kids from January 2002 through June 2007.
Illustrations on pages 5, 116–125 by Mary Joseph Peterson, FSP.
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ContentsFrom the Author 5The First Collection 6The Second Collection 18The Third Collection 38
The Fourth Collection 56The Fifth Collection 76The Sixth Collection 96
And Now a Word from…Alberto 116Chantal 118Denver 120Suki 122
From the Office of Principal Webster 124
From the Author
5
Welcome to S
tepping Ston
es! Or if
you’re a for
mer reader o
f My Friend:
The Catholic
Magazine fo
r Kids, mayb
e
I should say
, “Welcome b
ack!” Have f
un
revisiting y
our old frie
nds: Denver,
Chantal, Suk
i, Alberto,
and all the
others!
If you’re ne
w to the com
ic, I think
you’ll enjoy
meeting the
Stepping St
ones
kids and sha
ring their l
ives. You’ll
be
there for th
eir ups and
downs, probl
ems
and joys, su
ccesses and
failures. It
’s
all part of
their journe
y toward a c
loser
relationship
with God.
Actually, th
e comic gets
its name fr
om
the idea of
that journey
. Everything
that
happens to
the characte
rs, everyone
they meet, e
ach problem
they solve—
they’r
e all steppi
ng stones on
a
path.
And that pat
h leads to
knowin
g God, lovin
g him, and
gettin
g close to h
im.
You’re on
the same jou
rney, you
know. I ho
pe this book
will be a
stepping sto
ne for you a
long your wa
y.
God bless yo
u!
Diana R. Jen
kins
6
The First Collection
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8
9
10
After school the next day...
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12
13
14
15
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At school the next day...
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