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As a conceptual tool, metaphor is prevalently observed not only in mundane language, but also in various human activities, such as gestures, movies, buildings, dream interpretation, rituals and so on. Researchers, such as Forceville (1996), Forceville and Urios-Aparisi (2009), Alousque (2015), and Sobrino (2017), have paid attention to the analysis of visual images based on conceptual metaphors. A picture book is a great genre to be analyzed with the conceptual metaphors because its meaning is created through the interaction of visual and verbal signs. However, it is not easy to find any case studies of metaphorical analysis of picture books. Bridging the gap, this paper examines the picture book John Patrick Norman McHennessy-The Boy Who Was Always late based on the conceptual metaphor LEARNING IS A JOURNEY. The result shows that various metaphorical entailments of the LEARNING IS A JOURNEY are utilized in visual images as well as verbal texts in creating the message the author tries to deliver throughout the picture book.