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What was this book?

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puppydisaster · 14/01/2023 10:43

I'm trying to remember a children's book I read when I was about 10 (1990ish).

I thought it was called Holiday in Happy Land but I can't find it.

It was about a boy who enters a McDonalds contest to win a Disney type break by entering a slogan contest.

He gets hypnotised to think of a slogan and comes up with:

Hughey McGooey(?) is the funniest clown
Watch him drop his trousers down
With his ? so ? and his burgers so chewy
The funniest clown is Hughey McGooey

The boy wins the contest, but I seem to remember it has quite a dark ending, where apparently he has never actually come round from the hypnotism. Basically Total Recall for children.

Does this ring any bells?

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bookworm14 · 14/01/2023 16:19

This thread on Goodreads says it’s ‘Holiday in Happy Street’ by Jon Blake. www.goodreads.com/topic/show/18482833-solved-a-competition-burgers-male-character-hypnotism-and-the-fall-o

puppydisaster · 18/01/2023 07:09

Amazing, thank you!

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