to serve, run a knife around the edge of the pan before separating the sides from the base. that's the way i prefer to look at characters, situations, emotions, and beauty of all sorts. does anyone have a creative way to show how much we have been enjoying the novel? for some reason it just stuck with me. or, after a story is read aloud, display picture cards which include the story characters. so, there is a practical purpose to all of this collecting. the order is not important and items are usually styled with bullet points. 