Please help identify a Children's Book: "Hooray", "Oh No"

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Helping a friend out here…

Looking for a children’s book my friend remembers from sometime in the mid-70s, so the book could be from that time or earlier.

He can’t remember the specifics of the plot, but the basic structure was that something good would happen, and the main character would say a specific phrase, like “hooray” or maybe “yippee” or something like that, and then something bad would happen, and the character would say “oh no!” or something similar. Then the good/bad cycle would repeat, and the character would use the same two phrases over and over.

I know that’s vague, but the 'Dope has been awesome so many times in the past…

Thanks,
thwartme

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In deference to your username, I am going to refuse to help you.

Not that I know the answer anyway.:stuck_out_tongue:

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Hurry Hurry (sequel: Stop Stop) by Edith Thatcher Hurd?

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I don’t know the story, but the theme comes up in a conversation late in the film Charlie Wilson’s War.
I mention just for the heck of it.

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Could it be this?

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Wasn’t that the Taoist farmer parable?

CMC fnord!

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that sounds too perfect to be wrong… I’ll pass that on, thanks very much!

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And just to wrap this up, for anyone that might be curious…

The correct book was ‘Fortunately’ by Remy Charlip.

This was discovered as it was a link on the page of the book suggested by Rilchiam. So thanks to Rilchiam, and to everyone for their help.

Thanks,
thwartme

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Glad I could help!