| 100% | WHERESWALDO | 11 | Children's puzzle book series featuring a boy in a red and white hat (2 wds.) |
| 81% | WHERESWALDO | 11 | Children's seek-and-find book series featuring a boy in a red and white hat (2 wds.) |
| 44% | STUARTLITTLE | 12 | Children's novel by E.B. White featuring a boy who is two inches tall and looks like a mouse (2 wds.) |
| 44% | CAMPTIGER | 9 | Children's book by 52-Across and illustrator John Rocco that features a big cat in the woods (2 wds.) |
| 41% | PATTHEBUNNY | 11 | Children's touch-and-feel book featuring a white rabbit (3 wds.) |
| 40% | WALDO | 5 | Children's book character who wears a red and white striped shirt |
| 39% | WALDO | 5 | Children's book character in a red-and-white shirt |
| 39% | CHARLOTTESWEB | 13 | Children's novel by E.B. White featuring a talking spider and a "Terrific" pig named Wilbur (2 wds.) |
| 38% | HENRYANDRIBSY | 13 | One in a series of books by 46-Across about a boy and his dog: 3 wds. |
| 38% | TOAD | 4 | Frog and ___ (friends in a children's book series) |
| 38% | OLIVIA | 6 | Pig featured in a series of children's books |
| 38% | MARGARETKEANE | 13 | American painter, featured in a 2014 biopic, known for her women and children with big eyes: 2 wds. |
| 38% | WALTLONGMIRE | 12 | Sheriff of the fictional county of Absaroka, Wyoming, who is featured in 20 books by 40-Across and a 2012-2017 television series (2 wds.) |
| 37% | ORANGEIS | 8 | With 33- and 52-Across, television series set in a women's prison: 2 wds. |
| 37% | KENGRIFFEYJR | 12 | He never made it to the World Series despite playing in 2,671 regular-season games with the Mariners, Reds, and White Sox: 3 wds., abbr. |
| 37% | DRSEUSS | 7 | Writer of the children's book, "The Cat in the Hat": 2 wds. |
| 37% | WALDO | 5 | Children’s-book character in a red-and-white-striped shirt |
| 36% | DAVEEGGERS | 10 | Author whose children's book "The Eyes and the Impossible" won the Newbery Medal in 2024: 2 wds. |
| 36% | GOODNIGHTMOON | 13 | Children's rhyming book featuring a green bedroom (2 wds.) |
| 36% | STUARTLITTLE | 12 | Rodent born to human parents in an E.B. White children's book: 2 wds. |
| 36% | TOPSY | 5 | Title twin sister in a series of children's books by Jean and Gareth Adamson |
| 36% | THEBORROWERS | 12 | & 15A 1959 children’s book by Mary Norton; third in a series featuring the Clock family |
| 36% | SHARKTANK | 9 | Emmy-winning ABC reality series that features 48-Across as a judge and investor: 2 wds. |
| 35% | VERUCASALT | 10 | Child in Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" who is thrown down a garbage chute by squirrels: 2 wds. |
| 35% | BAABAA | 6 | ___ Walters, character spoofed after a famous journalist in the children's TV series, "Sesame Street": 2 wds. |
| 35% | CLINTDEMPSEY | 12 | Soccer player who achieved a hat trick for the US Men's National Team in 2015 and 2017: 2 wds. |
| 35% | HANDMAIDATTIRE | 14 | Perfectly fitted and personally sewed duds stitched by a seamstress in red with a white hat, no doubt? |
| 35% | ALLTHAT | 7 | "She's ___," 1999 rom-com set in a high school featuring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachael Cook: 2 wds. |
| 35% | SOUTHPARK | 9 | Animated series starring Trey Parker and Matt Stone that's named for a fictional town in Colorado: 2 wds. |