Idea for a Children's Book

Once upon a time there was a little duck, a duckling if you will. Duckling had a brother, and they both lived in a beautiful pond with Mama and Papa Duck. But while Duckling was still quite little, Brother Duck swam away and never returned home. This caused a great deal of anger, hurt, and sadness for the Duck family. None-the-less, Duckling had a fairly happy ducklinghood, minus the no sibling thing, and the fact that Mama and Papa Duck sometimes fought. As Duckling got older, the fighting increased. The little duckling was so tired of all the quacking. Mama and Papa Duck decided that they wanted to swim to a new pond, they figured that might make things better. Duckling did not want to go. Duckling returned to the old pond often, she still called it home. She spent most of her time there, and preferred it there with old friends, to the new pond with Mama and Papa Duck. Then one day, Papa Duck decided that he still wasn't content with the new pond, and that he also was no longer content with Mama Duck. So he left for another new pond alone, without even telling Duckling. And so the 3 ducks lived in 3 separate ponds, and Duckling felt at home nowhere. She felt like her past had just been erased, and like her future had been ruined. Duckling could have created a whole new pond with her tears. She tried to swim after Papa Duck, to convince him to come home. But Papa Duck swam faster and harder than Duckling, and would not listen. Duckling just wanted a home to belong to again. She would have given anything to return to the incessant quacking of Mama and Papa, instead of the terrible silence she was left with. She couldn't figure out why none of this was happening to any of her other duck friends. It didn't seem fair. And she never figured it out. Because it wasn't fair, and it wasn't right, and nothing would ever make it that way.