Penelope Trevor Penelope Trevor i(A18640 works by)
Also writes as: Pepe Trevor
Born: Established: 1960 ;
Gender: Female
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1 form y separately published work icon Li'l Horrors Ray Boseley , Glen Dolman , Annie Fox , Robert Greenberg , Peter Hepworth , Brendan Luno , Clare Madsen , David Phillips , David Rapsey , Hugh Stuckey , Penelope Trevor , Anthony Watt , Kevin Nemeth , Beverley Macdonald , Jamie Forbes , Meg Mappin , Chris Anastassiades , Adam Todd , Nancy Groll , ( dir. Chris Langman et. al. )agent Australia : December Films , 2000 Z1856886 2000 series - publisher film/TV children's humour horror

A live-action puppet show, Li'l Horrors followed the misadventures of the students at a school run by Morbidda Bates, a retired horror-film actress. The students included examples of key monsters from horror films: vampires, Frankenstein's monster, gorgons, mummies, zombies, werewolves, and swamp creatures.

According to December Films' press release for the series:

Li'l Horrors is a children's puppet sitcom specifically produced for the 5-8 year old age group. This is an age group who are currently not well catered for. Much programming is made for pre-schoolers and for 9 year olds and above. Li'l Horrors is created for this in between age group. It does not talk down to its audience or aim over its head. It is, however, infused with enough wit and off-the-wall humour to engage an even wider audience. Aimed well at [its] target audience, it is modern, slick, sly, funny and irreverent.

The program also focuses strongly on difference, with each of the characters quite strongly physically different from one another, as well as widely different in behavious and characteristics.

1 Penelope Trevor: 'Listening for Small Sounds' Penelope Trevor , 2000 extract novel (Listening for Small Sounds)
— Appears in: Mixed Grain: Celebrating 20 Years of 'The Australian' Vogel Literary Award 2000; (p. 209-215)
1 2 y separately published work icon Another Man's Office Penelope Trevor , St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 2000 Z668468 2000 single work novel
1 1 form y separately published work icon Li'l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers Chris Anastassiades , John Armstrong , Ray Boseley , Robert Greenberg , Mark Hopkins , Gina Roncoli , Esben Storm , Cameron Clarke , Pepe Trevor , Kevin Nemeth , Peter Viska , Esben Storm , Chris Anastassiades , ( dir. Robbert Smit et. al. )agent Australia : Viskatoons Australian Children's Television Foundation , 1997-1998 Z1893706 1997-1998 series - publisher film/TV children's

Thrown out of a gold Cadillac in a guitar case one night (strongly suggesting that he is the illegitimate child of Elvis Presley, as well as casting Presley in a rather unfortunate light), Li'l Elvis is raised by Grace and Len, fervent Elvis fans who run an outback diner in the small town of Wannapoo. The problems arise when the world's 'nicest billionaire' W.C. Moore decides to turn Wannapoo into a 1950s' theme town called Li'l Memphis. Every day, L'il Elvis and his Truckstoppers play sets that knock the audience dead, but L'il Elvis secretly wishes he could be a normal kid. But if they stop playing, the tourists stop coming, and Moore calls in everyone's outstanding loans ...

1 form y separately published work icon The Adventures of the Bush Patrol Bush Patrol Sarah Smith , Terry Finch , Tiffany Evans , Cathy McCormick , Carol Matthews , Don Linke , Russell Hagg , Megan Bond , Michelle Rogers , Jenny Sharp , Adam Whitbread , Roslyn Silvestrin , Patrick Edgeworth , Coral Drouyn , John Coulter , Alan Coleman , Nicholas Flanagan , Ron Elliott , Kit Oldfield , Geraldine Mellet , Neil Luxmoore , Kelly Lefever , Peter A. Kinloch , Jim Howes , Fiona Hile , Peter Hepworth , Shane Brennan , Alister Webb , Penelope Trevor , Emma J. Steele , Sarah Rossetti , Faye Grant-Williams , Carole Wilkinson , ( dir. Alan Coleman et. al. )agent Australia : Rosenbaum Whitbread Film & Television Productions , 1996-1998 Z1889011 1996-1998 series - publisher film/TV

'The series is based on a national park ranger, her two children, their friends and how they form the Bush Patrol to help protect the park and its native inhabitants. There's plenty of adventure and fun featuring Australia's unique flora and fauna and modern family relationships.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 3/12/2013)

1 8 y separately published work icon Listening for Small Sounds Penelope Trevor , St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1996 Z448428 1996 single work novel
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