| FAIRYSTORY | Children's tale |
| CROW | The Thirsty ___ popular children's tale |
| HEN | The Little Red ___ (children's tale) |
| POOH | Children's tale bear |
| BIGBADWOLF | Children's tale villain |
| ALADDIN | Character in children's tale |
| PINOCCHIO | Carlo Lorenzini, under the nom de plume Carlo Collodi, wrote this children's tale about a puppet who |
| EMPEROR | According to the children's tale, who strolled naked in front of his subjects thinking he was finely |
| BABESINTHEWOOD | Traditional children's tale of two children abandoned in a forest (5,2,3,4) |
| INTHE | Babes - - Wood; a traditional children's tale; or, a 1990s sitcom with Karl Howman and Denise van Outen (2,3) |
| BABES | Traditional children's tale and popular pantomime, ... In The Wood (5) |
| SPYRI | Author of the much-loved children's tale of Heidi, the little Swiss maid; Johanna ... |
| HAM | Dr Seuss used only 50 different words in his popular children's tale, Green Eggs And ... |
| MALICE | Hate married girl in children's tale (6) |
| LOSTPRINCE | The ---, classic children's tale by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| CRONE | Witch or hag, in a children's tale? |
| GOODYTWOSHOES | Nickname of the orphan girl Margery Meanwell, protagonist of a children's tale first recorded by English publisher John Newbery in 1765 (5,3-5) |
| LIZZIE | Girl/woman's name associated with a profusely blooming "busy" plant and also Penelope of Little Hemlock, in a children's tale by Helen Cresswell (6) |
| ELF | Character in children's tales |
| STORYBOOK | Collection of children's tales (9) |
