Mrs Parkin helped Pixi cut a door in a large cardboard box, after turning it upside down, as well as two holes for windows, and they painted it to resemble the illustration of the straw house in Pixi’s book. Then they painted a pattern resembling timber onto another cardboard box, and repeated the process to create the second pixie’s wooden house prop. Lastly, they painted bricks onto a third cardboard box to resemble the third pixie’s house, and cut the door and window holes too.

Then came the time to act out the story. Mrs Parkin let Pixi run ahead of her and get into the first house, before he peeked out the window and saw her looming towards the house. She was a fully grown adult, much taller than him, which enabled him to look up at her and imagine himself as a helpless pixie, even though the pixies in his story had been drawn relatively so much smaller than the Big Bad Woman.

He saw her long lace skirt and her button-less shirt as she stepped towards his ‘house.’

“Come out, little Pixie, so I can eat you all up!” she said, following the book to perfection.

Pixi was in a state of ecstasy and euphoria which he couldn’t fully comprehend, as he heard Mrs Parkin say those lines and saw the well acted ‘big bad’ smile that she put on to accompany them.

“Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Woman?” he sang, improvising a tune.

Mrs Parkin lifted the cardboard house away and put it aside, and reached down and picked him up in both her hands.

“I’ll gulp and I’ll gulp and I’ll swallow you down!” she said and lifted him up above her head a little, and tilted it back and opened her mouth wide to simulate eating him. Pixi was just about to test the waters of putting his fingers into her mouth, when she ended the scene and put him down.

She had no idea that he was an even better actor than she thought, as the boy concealed the nature of his enjoyment of the part he was playing.

“There, you’re all gone, little Pixie,” she said, “Let’s take an act break and get into position for the next scene.”

The next scene’s dialogue was largely the same with the second Pixie, until she tossed the ‘wooden house’ aside and lifted him up, saying, “I’ll munch and I’ll crunch and I’ll gobble you down!”

Pixi had always wanted to be eaten whole by Mrs Parkin, and this would never change, but he still seemed to enjoy the way she talked of munching and crunching and gobbling him, paraphrased from the original story.

Again she brought him close to her face. He waited for her mouth to open and give him another inviting view inside it, but she was drawing him closer still, until her face went out of focus. Suddenly he felt her tongue lick his cheek. It was only for two seconds or so, but it was the most wonderful thing she had ever done for him, and she had no idea. To her she was just adding realism to the role.

“That makes another delicious little Pixie all gone,” she said, following the story, “Now it’s time to eat the third one.”

The third act was an anticlimax for Pixi, as he simply remained in the house until the ‘Big Bad Woman’ gave away her plans for the third pixie, unable to pull up the house of bricks.

Pixi wanted Mrs Parkin to eat him more than ever now. He wanted her to lick him and put him in her mouth and gobble him all the way down to her tummy. The ramifications of the irreversible nature of such an act did not even enter his head.