"Tom lives in the country where he and his parents do plenty of work, from hoeing vegetables to spinning wool to making nails. "What's it like in the town?" Tom asks. "It's the same everywhere," his mother and father tell him, "just work and more work." Determined to find out for himself, Tom sets off with a bit of bread and cheese in a bundle. His curiosity takes him from the town to the city to the sea, and each place he goes, he discovers all kinds of work and all kinds of wonders"--Dust jacket.