| 100% | JAM | 3 | "Bread and ___ for Frances" (children's book by Russell and Lillian Hoban) |
| 46% | BOD | 3 | BBC TV animated series for children based on books by Michael and Joanne Cole |
| 45% | TOPSY | 5 | Title twin sister in a series of children's books by Jean and Gareth Adamson |
| 43% | RATS | 4 | "Mrs. Frisby and the ___ of NIMH," children's book by Robert C. O'Brien |
| 42% | SAL | 3 | "Blueberries for ___" children's picture book by Robert McCloskey |
| 42% | ISPY | 4 | Best-selling children's book series by Walter Wick and Jean Marzollo |
| 41% | SHOE | 4 | "Little Gretchen and the Wooden ___," children's Christmas-themed book by Elizabeth Harrison |
| 41% | CAMPTIGER | 9 | Children's book by 52-Across and illustrator John Rocco that features a big cat in the woods (2 wds.) |
| 40% | SAL | 3 | "Blueberries for ___" (children's book by Robert McCloskey) |
| 40% | MARYPOPPINS | 11 | Musical based on children's books by P.L. Travers and 1964 Disney film of the same name: 2 wds. |
| 40% | KAYHARKER | 9 | Hero of children's books The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights by John Masefield |
| 39% | NOVELS | 6 | Books by Jane Austen and Agatha Christie, for example |
| 38% | MARYPOPPINS | 11 | 1964 film starring 17-Across and 30-Across based on children's books by P.L. Travers about a magical nanny (2 wds.) |
| 38% | GIVING | 6 | Children's book by Shel Silverstein: The __ Tree |
| 38% | MOODY | 5 | "Judy ___ and the NOT Bummer Summer" (children's book by Megan Jo McDonald) |
| 37% | STORMBOY | 8 | 1964 children's book by Colin Thiele |
| 37% | BALLETSHOES | 11 | 1936 children's book by Noel Streatfeild |
| 37% | PIPPI | 5 | "___ Longstocking," children's book by Astrid Lindgren |
| 37% | THEGRUFFALO | 11 | 1999 children's book by Julia Donaldson |
| 37% | THEWIND | 7 | 1908 children's book by Kenneth Grahame |
| 37% | TOMAHAWK | 8 | 1960 children's book by Roberta Leigh |
| 37% | ELOISE | 6 | 1955 children's book by Kay Thompson |
| 37% | THEBFG | 6 | 1982 children's book by Roald Dahl |