It's not easy to keep a dog. People might as well start over for the rest of their lives.

This story museum is said to be a children's picture book. But I think it seems more suitable for adults.

The retro style of picture books is slightly "dark". When people reach middle age, they can have a general understanding of the deep meaning hidden in picture books and deeply understand the courage and strength hidden in "darkness" after experiencing big and small things.

The hero of the story is Asha Pigou who is thinking about life. His name is Homer Henry Hudson, and he runs a museum. Every exhibit in it has a unique story. Every story in the exhibit also reflects Homer's life.

Homer's first half life can be said to be full of thrills and thrills. He gave up the rich and comfortable family farm life in Texham, Dorset, England, and chose an adventurous life.

He went to the Mediterranean as a fisherman, found a concentric tidal diviner in the sunken ship and put it in his own museum. This exhibit also tells Homer that the divination made by the fortune teller may not be correct, and the future is not static. He has also been to the northern kingdom of Nottland and the Andes ... These unforgettable adventures have enriched his dog life and brought different collections and stories to his museum.

Until he was exploring in South America, he was disabled by a plane crash and had to be accompanied by crutches every day. He stopped his exploration career and spent every day in his museum with memories.

Fortunately, the statue of death given to him by Princess Bibi, a little girl from the kingdom of Nottland, who he once saved, made him rethink his life. He started again.

Homer's different exhibits outline the life of an adventurous dog. But I think the meaning of this story goes far beyond this. It shows that a person is looking for his own way.

It was not until I heard the story of Zach, the author of this picture book, that I found that Homer had more or less the shadow of the author.

Zach, the author of this story museum picture book, was also troubled by anxiety when he was a child. He really wants to go out and discover the world, but he can't go out for a while.

In real life, we may be more or less like Zach and Homer. We may get into some kind of trouble because we are afraid of the unknown. But do we really want to look back on life when we are facing death, but there is nothing worth remembering?

Interestingly, we can also use this book as an index to find some history.

However, there is a problem here. Is the country mentioned in the exhibit a real country?

I searched the Internet for keywords such as the kingdom of Nottland and Princess Bibby for a long time before I realized that this country did not exist. Later, I learned that the homonym of this name actually means the country of night.

The story of the little girl actually coincides with courage. A war broke out in the kingdom of Nottland. The lonely princess of the kingdom took a bear to escape in a hot air balloon and met Homer to escape. Many years later, when the princess grew up, she found Homer again and gave Homer a statue of death left by her own father, which triggered Homer's ultimate thinking about death and life.

The Andes in South America are real. In the Andes, parrot feathers symbolize power and prestige. So Sha Pigou convinced the parrot priest with great prestige, symbolizing people's fear of power in real life.

These exhibits, which need us to judge whether they really exist in the long river of history, all point to courage and adventure without exception.

Translators are strongly advised to write a "decoding book". Otherwise, these interesting stories will probably be buried.

As Homer said at the end of this book: Everything has a story.

When I saw the newspaper, many exhibits from past lives jumped to the page.

It is said that the editor of this book designed this newspaper from scratch for four months in order to "decode" this picture book, during which he read more than a dozen newspapers. We should also be able to reveal the hidden culture in the "exhibits" and make the newspaper lively and interesting. In such an era of "fast food", it may be obviously disproportionate to spend so much time and experience to make such an investment and return, which really shows the "true love" for picture books.

The cover of this picture book is made of special materials, and the self-portrait of the author will be displayed after 30 minutes of illumination under the light.

The dog was thinking about this credit card while paying, and the word "Phoenix" was written on it. Is it a metaphor that a phoenix is born from nirvana?

More eggs have yet to be found. ...

I read this book to my 4-and-a-half-year-old son roughly and asked him how he felt about it. He said: He wants to keep Asha Pigou as a pet.

Well, sure enough, this picture book is still too abstruse for a four-year-old child.

Then wait till he grows up. Got it.