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What books did you like (or dislike) as a child that you now recognize had something related to your adoption? How do you think those books touched on adoption either directly or indirectly?

I'm now re-reading Tin Tin in Tibet (the Chinese version) as a way to help boost my Chinese language studies. It dawned on me that I perhaps some of the reasons I was so drawn to the book as a kid were the underlying parallels to adoption. Tin Tin's Chinese friend Chang, whom Tin Tin goes to search for in Tibet, is an orphan. The whole story is about Tin Tin's search for his beloved, lost friend. We find out that Chang had been saved (adopted?) by the yeti. There are a lot of sadness and moving moments in the story (just have a look at the Wikipedia overview of the story).

If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it. Apparently it was the author Herge's favourite and Tin Tin was the first fictional character to be given the Truth of Light award by Tibet's Dalai Lama.