ten things off the top of your head

Nic's top-ten-off-the-top-of-your-head game has only one rule:
"it HAS to be off the top of your head...no scouring the internet for all-time-best-character lists."
She picked the top ten best male movie characters.

so here we have it - off the top of my head and in no particular order,

top ten memorable child movie characters

Lucy Diamond Dawson (Dakota Fanning) in I Am Sam
Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore) in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
David (Ben Tibber) in I Am David
Annie (Aileen Quinn) in Annie
Fern Arable (Dakota Fanning) in Charlotte's Web
Walter (Haley Joel Osment) in Secondhand Lions
Peter Llewelyn Davies (Freddie Highmore) in Finding Neverland
Jo March (Winona Rider) in Little Women (this is a stretch, I know, b/c she's a teen, but she's such a great character)
Nat Cooper (Elijah Wood) in Forever Young
Elliot (Henry Thomas) in E.T.