The Wonderful Thing about Hiccups by Cece Meng, illustrated by Janet Pederson.

If you want a wonderfully silly book about libraries, you have found it.  The story starts with very loud hiccups in the middle of a quiet library.  Of course you have to hand upside down and drink water to get rid of them, so you go hang in a tree outside.  But when you find a big surprise, a hippo, in the tree you get so surprised that your hiccups vanish.  Each new part of the story starts with “The wonderful thing about…” and goes ahead from there.  The book usually has a negative part of the wonderful thing, making the story full of giggles. 

This would make a great book to read for elementary class visits to the library, whether public or school.  The humor is filled with slapstick falls, messes, and pure silliness.  The illustrations are equally as silly as the story, especially make sure you read aloud the Library Book Rules to Remember as well as the title of the book the librarian is reading at the end of the story. 

The wonderful thing about this book is that it pairs hilarity and libraries, and as anyone who works in a library can tell you, that happens quite often in real life.