Children's books - anticipating the next page

I'm looking for books that encourage kids aged around 3-4 to infer what's going to happen on the next page. It has to be incredibly obvious, and the event on the next page can't be a repetition of something that's gone before. I'm thinking buckets of paint pictured about to fall on people, people stepping out over holes in the ground, etc.

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We have one called 'Tell Me The Day Backwards' which sort-of encourages that - the bear is running away from bees, on the next page he's stealing their honey, then he's finding the hive, etc. The inverted time seems kind of complicated to me, but is very popular in our house.

speaking of bears, We're Going On A Bear Hunt, although I'm not entirely sure that one involves turning over the page for the Big Spoiler, will have to check

*will have to go through it

Books with flaps might be a productive avenue to explore.

From what i recall, Spot Goes To The Farm has him listening to the noises baby animals make and guessing what the animals are - to be revealed when the flap is lifted. It's not quite the same thing but flaps, in general, tend to require the child to anticipate what's underneath them.

Let me wake up fully and look at my shelves.

Urrrgh I have basically none of these kinds of books, because they're mostly for really young audiences. Probably more of it in the board book market segment than in the big-format picture books, which typically "tell a story" with a more narrative approach. OTM about lift-the-flap books, which are going to be board books too.

The only one I have, and it's not exactly what you asked, is one called MR GRUMPY'S OUTING. The deal is that the kids and all the farm animals ask Mr Grumpy if they can come on his outing, and he says to each, Yes, but only if you (stop doing what is in your nature)." For instance he tells the chickens not to flap, the dog not to chase the cat, the sheep not to baa, the children not to squabble, etc, one type of animal per two-page spread...obviously as soon as they set out, all the characters do what is in their nature and chaos ensues.

my friend who has a 3 yr old had this amazing book laying around where every page it's like an object (a boat or w/e) and when you flip through it's like a camera zooms back and the object is revealed to be in a more complicated world than you thought (the boat is in a bathtub or w/e, and then the bathtub is in outer space or w/e, not as dumb tho) but that book has to be famous because it was just so good

just google boat zooming out book 3 yr old outer space

Oh that's by a Japanese guy, is alphabet-based, will try to remember

Isn't it just called ZOOM?

I'm thinking of something else maybe. Every alphabetical theme is prefigured on the previous letter's page

We have a picture book called "Yes Day" which is about a day when the answer to every question is yes...so one page will have "Can I have an ice cream?" and the next page will show him with a big ice cream. Pretty cute.

There's The Book About Moomin, Mymble, and Little My, which has windows on each page.

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