The first published story by nine-year-old Sofia – a short, thoughtful tale about the relationship between humans and animals, about power, responsibility, and compassion.
Once upon a time, before our time, dinosaurs still existed, and they all lived in peace.
There were carnivores, but they only ate others when those had already died.
Carnivores also ate plants.
But then, when the first humans arrived, everything changed, because humans did not want peace.
And they began to hunt.
They hunted everything that came before their eyes.
The dinosaurs that were small were lucky, because they could run away quickly.
And soon, humans had gained dominion over the world.
They cut down trees everywhere and built houses (whatever those were, they lived in them), and some houses were small, but some were big (super big).
We, the surviving dinosaurs, hid on an island that humans had not yet explored.
But when humans invented airplanes (flying machines that people could fit into), they found us dinosaurs.
They locked us in cages and then brought us to a zoo (a big cage with other animals, and people look at us).
There we were unhappy, but we could not escape.
We stayed there until the end of our lives…
This is how humans still treat animals today. They kill them just to congratulate themselves, and I want that to change!
I want all of us to do something about it!
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