Apollo is no ordinary dachshund. He is, we learn (and excuse me for giving away a major plot point) Super Dog. Surely few others of his breed can perform tricks vertically, horizontally and diagonally while remaining adorable from every angle. Apollo (both the book and the dog) are oversized along the horizontal axis, the better to work their charms on us. And those charms are considerable, in the spare words and the witty paintings.
