The Ties That Bind by Jude Watson (Jedi Apprentice Series, Book 14)

  Qui-Gon reached inside the pocket of his robe. "And he reminded me of something important."
  "A clue?"
  He handed Obi-Wan a pastry he had plucked from Manex's tray on the way out. "Even in the middle of a mission, don't neglect to taste the pastries."

The Dangerous Rescue by Jude Watson (Jedi Apprentice Series, Book 13)

 
  The worker shifted her feet. She was constantly moving as Obi-Wan asked her questions. And she seemed so nervous. "No, but they had to file a flight plan." Gazing at Obi-wan, she wiggled her foot.
  Obi-Wan noticed the movement and looked down. A small hand was curled around the worker's ankle.


 


  "That's my boy, Ned," she said in a whisper. "Please don't report me. I had to bring him to work this week. My mother is ill and she's the one who takes care of him."

The Evil Experiment by Jude Watson (Jedi Apprentice Series, Book 12)

 "How dare you question me!" Captain Yur T'aug sprang to his feet and stalked toward Obi-Wan and Astri. He came within centimeters of their faces. "Get out!" he bellowed.

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Qui-Gon Jinn, Jenna Zan Arbor, & Quint

  "Are you telling me I am not wise?" she asked.
  "You have intelligence. Maybe genius. But that is not wisdom."
  He had disturbed her. She covered it with a laugh. "I've heard of Jedi mind tricks. You are trying to get me to doubt myself. That is impossible."
  "Here is an example of what I mean," Qui-Gon said. "You do not recognize what truth is, so you call it a trick. That is why you are not wise, Jenna Zan Arbor. Wisdom is something you cannot identify because you cannot measure it with your instruments."

The Captive Temple by Jude Watson (Jedi Apprentice Series, Book 7)

<---  Xanatos escapes once again, this time by falling back into a rush of water in one of the Jedi Temple's water tunnels...

Obi-Wan and Bant sit together in the Room of a Thousand Fountains.  --->

The Dark Rival by Jude Watson (Jedi Apprentice Series, Book 2)

 It's funny how memory works, isn't it? It has probably been well over ten years since the last time I read this series.

There was one scene in this book which I remembered distinctly . . . Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi on a boat, leaving the mining platform where Obi-Wan had been a prisoner... Obi-Wan's electric collar couldn't be removed, so Qui-Gon ever-so-carefully sliced it off with his lightsaber. Ooo, ahhh! What a great picture of how much Obi-Wan already trusts Qui-Gon even before becoming Qui-Gon's padawan! So dramatic!


Guess what? That never happened. What was actually in the book:
     Qui-Gon placed his large hands around the collar, searching for a catch or seam. He could not break the collar, or twist it apart. He set his lightsaber to lower power and tried to cut it, but could not.
  "I need a high power, and that would injure you," he said.
  "Or behead me," Obi-Wan pointed out cheerfully.

... And  no, that exchange didn't happen on a boat. It was on land. And Qui-Gon had already deactivated the collar using the Force before they even got onto the boat in the first place. Oops.

 

 Left: The, uh.. skinny, manga version of Qui-Gon?

Upper right: Xanatos introduces himself as representative for Offworld. 

Lower right: Obi-Wan & Qui-Gon battling dragons in front of a cave, from book 1

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Xanatos

The Jedi Apprentice Series

The Jedi Apprentice series follows Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn's early adventures together -- before The Phantom Menace.
(Book 1 by Dave Wolverton, all the others by Jude Watson)

Obi-Wan Kenobi as a young padawan

I loved these books as a kid. Drawing the above picture of young Obi-Wan felt like... well, kind of like fulfilling a promise to my younger self. I'm re-reading these, and though I can see now that the writing isn't very good, there's still a spark of magic there.