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Delibird
Since: Oct, 2013
22nd Feb, 2019 11:09:12 PM
It sounds a lot like the animated film adaptation of "The Trumpet of the Swan," a classic children's novel by E.B. White. The film doesn't have a trope page, but the book does: [1]
Edited by Delibird Six-Two and Even ... Over and Out.
Hqami
Since: Feb, 2019
24th Feb, 2019 02:41:21 AM
Yeah, I think that's it. Thanks.
Hqamilicious
It started with a bunch of duck eggs hatching and their parents giving them names. Then one of them turns out to be mute and the father duck is disappointed. At some point some other bird steals money from the humans. Then the mute duck gets taken in by humans for a while and learns to write. When he gets back to the other ducks, he writes "Hi everybody" on a rock or something and draws a heart around it, but the other ducks don't understand it. Later the birds give the humans back their money and the mute duck gives a girl duck a heart-shaped rock and she doesn't get it.
Edit: It's an adaptation to the Trumpet of the Swan. I misremembered some details, though.
Edited by Hqami