THINGS TO THINK ABOUT What do you need in order to live? What do you think that the Tree-dwellers needed? Sharptooth Sharptooth was a Tree-dweller. She lived a long, long time ago. She did not have any home. Nobody had a home then. People wandered from place to place. They had no shelter except the trees. Each night Sharptooth slept in the branches. Each day she hunted for something to eat. Sometimes she was very hungry. She had hard work to find enough food. She could not go to a store to buy it. There were no stores then. She could not buy food of a farmer. There were no farmers then. All the plants were growing wild. All the animals were wild, too. Sharptooth was afraid of them. That is why she climbed the trees. THINGS TO DO Go out where everything is growing wild and find a place where the Tree-dwellers might have lived. Find as many wild foods as you can. Notice what places have the best wild foods. Find a place where the Tree-dwellers might have protected themselves from the wild beasts. Find a picture of Sharptooth running away from a wild animal. Tell a story about this picture.