By CJ Tiernan When you first hurdle the childhood benchmark of learning to read, it opens up a world of possibilities. Suddenly, you can pick up a book and read it all on your own (Awesome!). You can both explore a new world, and learn and grow doing it. It creates your first real moment of autonomy as a human being and sends your squishy little brain into overdrive. Below is a list of my 11 favorite books that I read as a child. I read these books over and over and over agai